The Evil of Fulfillment The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, tells the sordid story of Pecola, a young black girl, as she struggles to achieve beauty, praying desperately for blue eyes. Depicting the mistakes of the fairy tale family, Morrison weaves the stories of the town's many black residents into the true definition of family. Through intense metaphors and emotions, the ugliness of racial tension surpasses the search for beauty and, in turn, the search for love. Pecola, a twelve-year-old from a broken home, is first introduced when she is sent to live with Claudia (the narrator). and his family. His father, Cholly Breedlove, a drunk, burned down the family home and is now in prison. Here we see Pecola's desire for beauty and her obsession with Shirley Temple and blonde-haired, blue-eyed dolls as a common desire of young black women. This desire for beauty is actually a yearning for love, the love and adoration that they see attributed to living "dolls". [I wanted] to discover what eluded me: the secret of the magic they weaved on others. What made people look at them and say “Awwwww,” but not me? The sliding gaze of black women when they passed them on the street and the possessive kindness of their touch as they handled them (15). Children, so used to being beaten or whipped, have memories only of this treatment. They have never felt the warmth or love they believe white children receive. This pain leads them to believe that it is because of their color, their dark skin, dark eyes and "woolly" hair, that they are not seen as beautiful, and from these thoughts they begin to hate the beauty of white children. . Living in fear of her parents, Pecola becomes introverted and learns, like many other children, to deal with pain. "[Mom's song] left me with the belief that the pain was not only bearable, but it was sweet" (18). An undercurrent of sexual fantasies and discoveries is present throughout the novel, as many of the characters have been the product of loveless relationships. The men especially seek passion in girls, eventually leading to the confrontation between Pecola and Cholly, during which he rapes and impregnates her still-developing body. It is after this immoral act that Pecola seeks the answer to her prayers at the Soaphead Church.