Morrison is known for her deft examination of the Black experience. During this difficult and somewhat lonely time, she began working on her first novel, The Bluest Eye, which was published in 1970. They were married from 1958 to 1964, and the couple had two sons. Afer the couple split up and the birth of her second son, Morrison moved to New York and became an editor at Random House, specializing in Black fiction. Afterward, she taught at Texas Southern University and then at Howard, in Washington, D.C., where she met Harold Morrison, an architect from Jamaica.
She received her undergraduate degree from Howard University in 1953 and her master’s degree from Cornell University in 1955, completing a thesis on William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf. She credited her family and upbringing for her love and appreciation of Black culture. She grew up in the Midwest and developed a deep love of storytelling and folklore from a young age. She was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist most famous for her exploration of the Black experience, particularly the Black female experience. Morrison's story about a young black girl's growing self-hatred begins with an excerpt from a typical first-grade primer from years ago.Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. The tone is set immediately: "Good" means being a member of a happy, well-to-do white family, a standard that is continually juxtaposed against "bad," which means being black, flawed, and strapped for money. If one is to believe the first-grade primer, everyone is happy, well-to-do, good-looking, and white. One would never know that black people existed in this country. Against this laughing, playing, happy white background, Morrison juxtaposes the novel's black characters, and she shows how all of them have been affected in some way by the white media - its movies, its books, its myths, and its advertising.
For the most part, the blacks in this novel have blindly accepted white domination and have therefore given expensive white dolls to their black daughters at Christmas.
Henry believes that he is being complimentary when he calls Frieda and Claudia "Greta Garbo" and "Ginger Rogers." The schoolchildren - the black schoolboys, in particular - are mesmerized by the white-ish Maureen Peal, and Maureen herself enjoys telling about the black girl who dared to request a Hedy Lamarr hairstyle. The Bluest Eye is a harsh warning about the old consciousness of black folks' attempts to emulate the slave master.
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