Idealism in the Bluest Eye “Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very happy.” (7) Throughout The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses a version of the classic Dick and Jane stories found in grade school reading texts. Most black children of Pecola’s day learned to read from these …showed first 75 words of 676 total…

…showed last 75 words of 676 total…were like them, then everything would be all right. Pecola doesn’t wish for blue eyes just to make her pretty, she actually thought that it would change her life. Blue eyes are a symbol of whiteness and of the ideal life that she yearns for. Society tells her that whiteness is the key to a perfect life, yet striving for a perfect life is what tears the Breedlove family apart and drives Pecola insane.