The Bluest Eye Master Narratives Toni Morrison introduces readers to a concept called the "master narrative" in her novel "The Bluest Eye." She is critical of these worldviews, but not brazen. It presents this main narrative in a way that makes the reader feel its effects, not just see them clearly in black and white. Morrison criticizes two main points of view. The first is that being white automatically gives a person superiority. The second is that ugliness equals uselessness and, specifically, that darkness constitutes ugliness. Morrison captures the reader's attention with his excellent stylistic choices and forces the reader to see the danger of accepting everything the world tells you at face value. For starters, Morrison: A prime example of this indignity is people's reactions to Pecola's baby. Citizens comment that “it should be a law: two ugly people who double themselves to become even uglier. Better off underground (Morrison, page 190).” Others argue that because the baby is destined to be ugly, Pecola would be “lucky if she didn't live (Morrison, p. 189).” No one other than Claudia or Frieda believes that perhaps the child, despite his physical appearance, is worth something. Morrison uses these feelings towards the child to show how innocent victims of the master narrative they can be. The child was assumed to be ugly because of his blackness, and therefore useless without any regard to intelligence, creativity, or special abilities. Morrison's idea of ​​considering the child useless before birth is an excellent method of criticizing the main narrative because it causes the reader to ask some important questions. If the child was considered ugly before birth, without seeing it, then is beauty defined by what is seen or by what we want to see? Is someone's life worthless if they are called ugly by the world's standards? Is being black a concrete reason to be considered ugly? Morrison eloquently gets the reader to grasp the main narrative, look it in the eye, and decide whether or not to accept it.