The Bluest Eye (1970), Toni Morrison's first novel, was written during her teaching at Howard University and focuses on the oppression of black female characters Pauline, Pecola, Claudia and Frieda. The American concept of beauty becomes necessary for black African Americans to blend into the mainstream. Pecola suffers from an inferiority complex since childhood because she is ugly and black and no one loves her because Pecola comes from a poor family, cut off from the normal life of the community and has to face final humiliation and betrayal by her own father. Cholly rapes Pecola. Pecola's transition into the company of whores shows signs of her total sense of loneliness. Pecola Breedlove in the novel is oppressed not only because of racism but also because of classism and sexism. Ugliness, poverty and violence are the reasons for his humiliation. Suffering is Pecola's friend and her hunger for love and respect leads her into the world of fantasy.Keywords: oppression, inferiority, ugly, black, humiliation, betrayal, loneliness, racism, classism, sexism and fantasy.INTRODUCTIONThe biggest eye Blue (1970), Toni Morrison's first novel and was written during her teaching at Howard University. The main character, Pecola, is based on a real-life girl Morrison met when she was 11 years old. She and the little girl were arguing about whether God exists or not. Morrison thought so, but the little girl didn't agree. The main conflict in this novel is about black women becoming the central object of oppression as the black women characters in the novel are depicted as victims of a different sex or gender and also victims of the class and race that are imposed on them. The Bluest Eye is linked to the Black Power movement of...... middle of paper...... 1947.Davis, Cynthia. "Self, Society and Myth in Toni Morrison's Fiction", ContemporaryLiterature, 23, 3 (1982). Gibson, Donald B. (1989), "Text and Countertext in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye", Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, vol. 1 no. 1-2, pp. 19-32.Grewal, Gurleen (1998). Circles of Pain, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison, Boston, Louisiana State University press. Janeway, Elizabeth. Women's literature, in Hoffman (1979). Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye (1970; London: Random House, Vintage: 1999) Morrison, Toni. “Behind the Making of TheBlack Book”, Black World,23 (1974). Strouse, Jean. “Toni Morrison: BlackMagic.” Newsweek, March 30 (1981).