It was she who nursed Sethe, the runaway-near death with a newborn-and gave her a brief spell of contentment when Sethe was reunited with her two boys and first baby daughter.
THE BLUEST EYE SPARKNOTES FULL
Full of a baby's venom." Sethe's mother-in-law, a good woman who preached freedom to slave minds, has died grieving. The Ohio house where Sethe and her second daughter, 10-year-old Denver, live in 1873 is "spiteful. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of how former slaves, psychically crippled by years of outrage to their bodies and their humanity, attempt to "beat back the past," while the ghosts and wounds of that past ravage the present. Morrison's truly majestic fifth novel-strong and intricate in craft devastating in impact. A skillful understated tribute to the fall of a sparrow for whose small tragedy there was no watching eye. But "Love is never better than the lover," and with the death of her baby, the child herself, accepting absolutely the gift of blue eyes from a faith healer (whose perverse interest in little girls does not preclude understanding), inches over into madness. Born of a mother who adjusted her life to the clarity and serenity of white households and "acquired virtues that were easy to maintain" and a father, Cholly, stunted by early rejections and humiliations, Pecola just might have been loved-for in raping his daughter Cholly did at least touch her. But in a world where blue-eyed gifts are clucked over and admired, and the Pecolas are simply not seen, there is always the possibility of the dream and wish-for blue eyes. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear." And among the exclusions of white rural Ohio, echoed by black respectability, is ugly, black, loveless, twelve-year-old Pecola. "This soil," concludes the young narrator of this quiet chronicle of garrotted innocence, "is bad for all kinds of flowers.
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