The Bluest Eye - Pecola as a Victim of Evil Building the chain of events that answer the question of how Pecola Breedlove is a pariah caste in her community, Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye attempts to answer the more difficult question of why. Although, unexpressed, this question hovers obsessively over Pecola throughout the novel and in his circular narrative style Morrison weaves a story that seeks to answer this question by bringing together all the forces that were instrumental in creating a social incident. Using what seem like tangents in the story, we are shown examples of how forces outside of human control such as nature, an omniscient being, and above all a legacy of rejection came together to establish the legacy of desolation that was passed on to Pecola Breedlove. A pattern of precedence is reconstructed in the story, showing that the seeds of Pecola's current sterility were planted in the lives of previous generations. By profiling the lives of Soaphead Church and Pauline Breedlove, Morrison argues for the validity of generational curses. Their narratives are appropriately placed in the Spring division of the novel as an indication of the characters sowing the seeds that will be reaped by Pecola. Apparently, as an example of the ways in which fathers' transgressions impact their sons, the narrator provides an extensive account of Soaphead Church's family history, constantly citing instances in which fathers' traits (or the effects of their traits) followed children. for generations. Of his family the author says: "They have transferred this Anglophilia to their six children and sixteen grandchildren" and the family is described as a single entity, the results and... in the center of the paper... the Own Story Girl. " The Girl: Construction of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women. Ed. Ruth Saxton. New York: St. Martin's P, 1998. 21-42. Kubitschek, Missy Dehn. Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion. London: Greenwood, 1998. Kuenz, Jane. “The Bluest Eye: Notes on History, Community, and Black Female Subjectivity.” AfricanAmerican Review 27.3 (1993): 421-31. Middleton, David .: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Pettis, Joyce "Difficult Survival: Mothers and Daughters in The Bluest Eye: A scholarly journal of black women". 4 (1987): 26-29.