The Bluest Eye - Pecola as a Victim of EvilBy building the chain of events that answer the question of how Pecola Breedlove is considered an outcast in her community, Toni Morrison in The Bluest Eye attempts to answer the more difficult question of why. Although, unspoken, this question looms 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 the creation of a social accident. Using what appear to be tangents in the story, we are shown examples of how forces beyond human control such as nature, an omniscient being, and primarily a legacy of rejection came together to establish the legacy of desolation which was transmitted to Pecola Breedlove. .A pattern of precedence is pieced together in the story, showing that the seeds of Pecola's current barrenness were sown in the lives of previous generations. In describing the lives of Soaphead Church and Pauline Breedlove, Morrison argues for the validity of generational curses. Their stories are aptly placed in the Spring division of the novel to indicate that the characters are sowing the seeds that will be harvested by Pecola. Apparently, as an example of how fathers' transgressions revisit sons, the narrator gives a detailed account of Soaphead Church's family history, constantly citing instances in which fathers' traits (or the effects of their traits) have followed the threads. for generations. About his family, the author says: "They transferred this Anglophilia to their six children and sixteen grandchildren" and the family is described as a single entity, the achievements and ...... middle of paper. .....g the girl. Own story." 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 Black Women's History, Community, and Subjectivity” African American Review 27.3 (1993): 421-31. , 1987. Middleton, David. Toni Morrison's Fiction: Contemporary Criticism New York: Garland, 1997. Morrison, Toni New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1993. Peterson, Nancy J. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997. Pettis, Joyce. “Hard Survival: Mothers and Daughters in the Bluest Eye: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women.” ». 4 (1987): 26-29.