e could afford to buy did not last, had no beauty or style, and were absorbed by the dingy storefront. More and more she neglected her house, her children, her manthey were like the afterthoughts one has just before sleep, they early-morning and late-evening edges of her day, the dark edges that made the daily life with the Fishers lighter, more delicate, more lovely. (P. 127) Self-hatred was so destructive that it ruined the Breedloves family.Other than the Breedloves being labeled as ugly by people in their society, they were also the poorest, thus poverty enhanced the problems. Morrison also brought into play the issue of racism, which was due to the dominant class being European who were supposedly superior to all other class at the time (may still be thought today). Racism and class differences lengthened the existing problem if not causing it entirely.Morrison, however, does not seem to bring out the point of class as much as she shows racism. As one literary critic describes Morrison addressing the topic of racism and class: Although her class analysis is immature at this point, Morrison is at least conscious of a limited role that economics plays in the exploitation of African people. Still, Morrison is more interested in developing the skin-color conflict (race) than the class conflict (capitalism). Although Morrison is criticized for an immature class analysis in The Bluest Eye I am going to speculate here to say it may have been on purpose that she looked at race more so than class causing the problems of the Breedloves. In this story there was a lot of intraracial prejudices, which should not have been. So maybe that is why Morrison chose to address race more so than class. (Although, class does come into play between the different groups within the African American race, which caused one group to think they are better than the other.) She probably wanted the particular race (African Americans) to examine themselv...
