Use of Color in Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye :: Bluest Eye Essays

Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down South.  Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and that streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home.  All them colors was in me1.  Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South when they moved North to Ohio to begin their life together.  through Cholly, Pauline hoped to find those colors of beauty that she left down home.              For a while she did find her colors, her beauty, in the eyes of Cholly.  He released in her every last(predicate) the colors of life which were sealed down in her soul.  Everything about their early married life was described in vivid colors.  This was true even of her familiar experiences with him.   Everything was fine, ordered and beautiful in both Pauline and Chollys life until they moved  up North.       & nbsp      Once they moved North everything changed.  The colors went out of Paulines life.  I missed my people.  I werent used to so much white folks...Northern colored folk was different too2.  Cholly only became meaner and meaner and wanted to fight all of the succession2.  He did not help the situation and contributed to his wifes dissatisfaction and disillusionment by not coming home.  He found his satisfaction through other people, thus he neglected Pauline.             To make up for this neglect and her own insecurities, Pauline sought comfort through movies.  Here she would sit and watch the perfect white gentleman of Hollywood.  Here she would find her colors on the silver screen.  She had a longing for these colors which was going to affect her life and the lives of her family until it destroys them, especially Pecola.           &nbs p When Pecola was born, a major(ip) change occured in Paulines life.  According to Susan Willis, Adjectives become substantives, giving taste and color and making it possible for colors to trickle and flow and finally be internalized...3. She straight off wished to live her life like this, through the colors in herself.  Right after Pecola was born Cholly once more began to pay attention to Pauline again the representation he used to when they lived down South.  The only problem was that the colors had dimed in Pauline.      By working for a white family, she found her order and her colors again but not with the intensity that she once did.