The Bluest Eye Social Problems With The Bluest Eye, Morrison has not only created a story, but also a series of painfully accurate impressions. As Dee says, "to read the book... is to desperately yearn for a remedy" (20). But Morrison raises painful questions while simultaneously managing to reveal the hope and encouragement beneath the surface. A reader could easily conclude that the most important social issue presented in The Bluest Eye is that of racism, but more important issues lie beneath the surface. . Pecola suffers harm from her abusive and neglectful parents. The reader is told that Pecola's mother also thought she was ugly from birth. Pecola's negativity may have initially been caused by her family's failure to provide her with identity, love, security, and socialization, all essential to any child's development (Samuels 13). Pecola's parents only manage to give her a childhood with limited possibilities. He struggles to find himself in sterile soil, leading to the analysis of a life of sterility (13). Like the marigolds planted that year, Pecola never grew. The concept of physical appearance as a virtue is at the heart of the social problems portrayed in the novel. Thus the novel develops with the most logical responses to this overwhelming impression of beauty: acceptance, adaptation, and rejection (Samuels 10). Through Pecola Breedlove, Morrison presents reactions to the value of physical criteria. The standard of beauty that Pecola feels she must live up to causes her to have an identity crisis. There is no place in society's standards for Pecola, unlike her "High Yellow Dream Child" classmate, Maureen Peals, who fits the mold (Morrison 62). Maureen's influence in the novel is important. “She charmed the entire school…the black girls stepped aside when she wanted to use the sink in the girls' bathroom…She never had to look for someone to eat with in the cafeteria—they crowded into the table of her choice” ( 62-63). In contrast, Pecola's classmates insult her black skin by singing "Black e mo Black e mo Ya daddy sleeps nekked/ stch ta ta stch ta ta" (65). The most damaging color-related interracial clash involves Pecola and an adult, Geraldine (Samuel 12). When Pecola enters Geraldine's home at her son's invitation, Geraldine forces her to leave with deeply wounding words, saying, "Go away...you little black bitch. Get out of my house."." (92).