Styles and Moods of The Bluest Eye

In The Bluest Eye, author Toni Morrison uses various creative writing styles in order to accentuate the dark moods that the book is based upon. Improper grammar, font styles, repetition, and narrator switching are all used in place of long descriptive paragraphs to convey the moods associated with topics such as abuse and incest.
The first creative writing style presented to the reader is a manipulation of the words themselves. In the first chapter, the “Dick and Jane” primer, Morrison starts by reciting the book as it would be read. Soon, however, the capitalization and punctuation disappear. These are then followed by the spaces, creating a mass of unseparated words. Without describing anything later in the story, Morrison succeeded in conveying to the reader that the story that follows will not contain the perfect house, family, or pet. The reader gets the sense that a character in the story is reading the “Dick and Jane” book, and that the character progressivel...