The Bluest Eye | Ideas for Group Discussions

The Bluest Eye generates spirited discussion on the nature, extent, and ubiquity of prejudice in modern America, and other texts on this subject by writers like Alice Walker and Toni Cade Bambara can develop useful dialogues about prejudice, its effects, and possible cures. The novel can also be approached as a treatment of the theme of individual freedom and cultural limitations on that freedom. Many of the questions that follow are intended to stimulate conversations on the tone of The Bluest Eye, or the attitudes implicit in Morrison's characterization and rhetoric....

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