The Dog with Two Different Colored Eyes

In the novel The Bluest Eye a lot of it has to do with the black children and even adults trying to conform to the ways of the racist whites. A lot of this desire is represented in Pecola's constant obsession with all things with blue eyes. When she is exposed to the cat its "blue eyes in the black face held her" (Morrison, 90). In that moment Pecola was reminded of herself, her dream self. Once the cat died and it was framed as her fault, it led her once again to believe it was because of her physical appearance. If only she had those blue eyes people "mustn't do bad things in front of those pretty eyes" (Morrison, 46), she wouldn't have been framed for its death. Pecola thinks that if she looked more like the people who are harming her emotionally, she would be superior to where she is now. What Pecola is asking for is the ability to be able to cause others to have the close to the same about of emotional and physical insecurity as she has. Her wish to have the blonde hair and blue eyes of white people really illustrates her wish of obtaining the same power they have, over words, and over people. As of now Pecola has no strength, not against other people, and not against herself. If Pecola can't even fight against the words of her own brain, how can she fight against the words others superior to her?