Morrison depicts Pauline as the perfect wife. She punctiliously and almost mechanically takes care of her child, ensuring he “was always brushed, bathed, oiled, and shod” (86).
She “bear children easily and painlessly” and continues acting properly even during sex, when she worries about which curlers are coming undone (84). She took “home economics to prepare his food,” developed “thrift, patience, high morals, and good manners,” she does the laundry dutifully, ensuring that her husband’s “work clothes will be mended, washed, and ironed” (83).
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Geraldine is “sweet and plain,” she “soften skin with Jergens Lotion,” and does “not drink, smoke, or swear” (82). By describing Geraldine as if part of a batch, she begins to demonstrate the standard society holds for women. Subliminally, the Dick and Jane novels created a standard for the ‘normal,’ the expected, namely …show more content… She begins her description of Geraldine by describing all women like her, which is in itself very significant, demonstrating society’s belief and even desire that all women conform to a set standard and fit that standard without question.
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The Dick and Jane novels served to teach young children how to read by employing short sentences and simple words. The novel’s first section involves the repetition of a Dick and Jane passage in various formats of punctuation and spacing. Through the Dick and Jane beginning of her novel, Morrison sets a preliminary standard for how men and women should act and behave, and then proceeds to demonstrate each character in terms of that standard while also including subtle, and not-so-subtle, undermining of said standard.
Show More Toni Morrison, in her novel, The Bluest Eye, depicts and undermines the standard for men and women and how they should interact.
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