【正文】 y at her age of 11. This study attempts to illustrate Pecola?s living situation and her passive and positive choice from her stance and perspective. And it aims at learning Morrison?s enlightenment about our better living from her humanized care about the weak group represented by the black. Key words: Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Pecola, living dilemma 1. Introduction Toni Morrison (1931 ), a contemporary American literature master (Elliott 20xx: 520), was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, and the latter one made her bee the first African American writer, and also, the second American woman writer after Pearl Buck in 1938 to enjoy the great honor. Her novels include Song of Solomon (1977), Beloved (1987), Love (20xx), A Mercy (20xx), etc. The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel of Toni Morrison and “established her place in black literature” (Wu 1998: 192). It is set in the Great Depression, the existed racial discrimination, and the Black is Beautiful movement (Shi 20xx: 3). It illustrates an 11yearold black girl gets insanity with hope for the bluest eyes after suffering a series of abuse from her family and her munity and it presents the victim of internalized racism and “dominant white American?s aesthetic values” (Millard 20xx: 15). Pecola, the protagonist of the novel, shows up as a boarder due to his father?s having burned down his family?s house. She often gets the host?s dislike. However, 2 after she moves back home with her family, Pecola?s life is still difficult. Her father drinks, her mother is distant and they often beat each other. Her brother often runs away. Unconsciously, Pecola feels she is ugly and wishes a pair of the bluest eyes so that her life can be changed and she can be loved. However, she can not. When she buys candy, the grocer shows bitter。 when she is on the street, boys make fun of her。 when she meets a new “friend”, she gets insulted. Once again and again, Pecola receives confirmation of her own sense of ugliness. She desperately looks forward to love. However, nobody gives her. Nobody tells her. She tries to find love hard alone. After her visit to whores who live in the apartment above hers, Pecola ambiguously feels romantic or sexual love may be a joy, which seems what she wants simply. However, after being raped by her biological father and getting pregnant and without powerful help, Pecola loses sanity. In her fantasy world, she, with a pair of the bluest eyes as she wishes, talks with an imaginary friend. This novel is structured in a line of four seasons of one year, from autumn to the next summer with an opening story from the standard elementary school DickandJane reading primer of the 1940s (the time of the action), which is repeated three times in different styles —— one with the normally grammatical sentences， one with verbatim without punctuation and a third time even without spaces between letters(Wang 20xx: 305) —— to sharpen the contrast between the ideal experience of the white world and the actual experience of the black portrayed and offer the signal of Pecola?s psychological change. Of the novel, Morrison uses a multinarrated method to tell the story. Among these, Claudia?s perspective skillfully deals with her childish viewpoint about what Pecola experiences and her adult viewpoint, which can correct the childish one when it is inplete. In this way, Morrison tells the misery and conveys hope. In the afterword to The Bluest Eye, Morrison explains her goal in writing the novel. “She wants to make a statement about the damage that internalized racism can do to the most vulnerable member of a munity —— a young girl. At the same time, she does not want to dehumanize the people who wound this girl, because that would simply repeat their mistake” (cited from Shi 20xx: 5). 3 2. Pecola’s Living Dilemma “All men are created equal” is not fit for Pecola. As an 11yearold black girl, Pecola even can not live her life normally let alone lives equally with others. In fact, her living dilemma is caused plicatedly. The social factors, her family factors and also she herself are inevitably associated. Social Factors Pecola lives in the time of the Great Depression, when the racial discrimination still exists. The economy difficulty and marginalized group circumstances make the black munity indifferent. What?s more, the internalized white values make the black lose themselves. They live a terrible life and pass it on the weaker than themselves. And even the children at the same age with Pecola bully her according to the white values. Besides, some other minority living on the margin of society like the black, such as a lightskinned West Indian, treats Pecola rough. In a word, Pecola can not get love from her surroundings. Her life is very hard. Difficulty from the Great Depression The Great Depression makes a heavy effect on American economy and the black particularly suffer. When supporting their families bees a big thing, the black are so tired physically and psychologically that they have no energy to care others. Even in the narrator of the novel, Claudia?s loving and stable family, they suffer racist beauty standards and material insecurity. “Her parents are more concerned with making ends meet than lavishing attention upon their daughters” (Shi 20xx: 7). The sisters, Claudia and Frieda Mac Teer, gather coal that has fallen out of the railroad cars. And their mother lost her temper when Claudia unfortunately caught a cold during one trip to gather coal, even though Mrs. Mac Teer is not mad at Claudia, but at the sickness under the pressure of life. Based upon this, it is not difficult to understand Mrs. Mac Teer?s plaint about Pecola?s drinking three quarts of milk out of the Shirley Temple (a hugely popular child actress of the day) cup in her family. After all, Pecola is a temporary boarder