Misdirected Anger Depicted in The Bluest Eye In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something to fear ; those who can't get angry are the ones who suffer the most. He criticizes Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these black people in his story misattribute their anger to themselves, their race, their family, or even God, instead of being angry at those they should have have. been angry at: white people. Pecola Breedlove suffered more because it was the result of other people's anger taken out on her, and she herself was incapable of getting angry. When Geraldine yells at her to get out of the house, Pecola's eyes were fixed on the "beautiful" lady and her "beautiful" house. Pecola doesn't stand up to Maureen Peal when she teased her about seeing her father naked, but instead lets Freida and Claudia fight for her. Instead of getting angry at Mr. Yacobowski for looking down on her, she directed her anger at the dandelions she once thought were beautiful. However, "anger doesn't hold up" (50), and feelings soon gave way to shame. Pecola was the sad product of having unloaded the anger of others on herself: «We unloaded all our waste on her and she absorbed it. And all our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us" (205). They felt beautiful next to his ugliness, healthy next to his impurity, his poverty made them generous, his weakness made them strong and his pain made them happier. When Pecola's father, Cholly Breedlove, was caught as a teenager in a field with Darlene by two white men, he "never thought of directing his hatred towards hunters" (150), rather she directed his hatred towards. .. the middle of paper...(what a shame). There is a feeling of being angry. A reality of presence. An awareness of value" (50). Blacks are not strong, only aggressive; they are not compassionate, only polite; they were not good, but they were well behaved; they substituted good grammar for intellect, and they rearranged lies to make them truth( 205). Above all, they faked love where they felt powerless to hate, and destroyed the love they had with anger. Toni Morrison tells this story to show the sadness in the way blacks were forced to place their anger at themselves, families and their blackness instead of the white people who cause their misery, "The Thing to fear (and therefore hate) was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us" (74). , the white. Works Cited: Morrison, Toni After by Toni Morrison New York: Penguin, 1994.