Use of comparative description in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Reading The Bluest Eye a second time, I noticed something about the nature of Morrison's prose. The term I heard most often to describe the book is beautiful. The first chapters seem both incredibly realistic and incredibly beautiful to me. The fact that Morrison can give a scene where Claudia vomits herself a rosy, nostalgic hue, while still managing to convey a sense of realism, is a testament to Morrison's skill with words. The language is certainly beautiful, a kind of sensual prose, almost bordering on poetry. I also believe that Morrison's style of descriptions is a key to understanding the major underlying theme of the novel, which is the association of races...

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