Dog Bone

A lot of The Bluest Eye focuses on just that, THE bluest eye. Although another metaphor that astounded me was the case in which Toni Morrison uses a different metaphor of a decaying tooth to emphasize the constant pressure the black race faces to motivate themselves to conform to white culture. The author references "the poison" (Morrison, 60) that is the cause of the damaged tooth to represent the white race, the reason for the damaged inferior blacks. On top of using poorly connotared words Morrison uses colors to make it obvious what she is referencing. For example the superficial "enamal" (Morrison, 60) is making it apparent that this shiny white exterior is the characteristic that all African Americans are yearning for will always be exposed by the "brown putty underneath" (Morrison, 60). In that time, it did not matter how hard the black race tried to mask themselves as white the standard the white race kept feeding them were impossible to reach without the African American being damaged first. I think Morrison used the metaphor of a tooth on an African American because it is one of the only places in which a white color is exposed. This furthermore expands Morrison's purpose in proving that no matter how hard one may try, the true culture with in will never be escaped by soely consuming the culture of another. The feeling of being supierior leads the white race to continue discriminating against people different than them because they are the ones controlling the social norms that are being consumed by the rest.