Their situation is a powerful contrast to the MacTeers, who are of slender means but have a strong family unit. Their story seems in many ways to be deterministic, as they are often the victims of forces over which they have no control. The Breedloves are poor, unhappy, and troubled. The prelude frames the story so that the reader knows from the beginning that Pecola's story ends tragically. Pecola, we are told in the prelude, will be raped by her father by novel's end. The novel's focus, however, is on a girl named Pecola Breedlove. Claudia MacTeer lives with her parents and her sister in the humble MacTeer family house in Lorrain, Ohio. This device allows Morrison to employ a reflective adult narrator without losing the innocent perspective of a child. At the time that the main events of the plot take place, Claudia is a nine-year-old girl. The first section of each season is narrated by Claudia MacTeer, a woman whose memories frame the events of the novel. The four larger units begin with "Autumn" and end in "Summer," with each unit being split into smaller sections. The Bluest Eye is split into an untitled prelude and four large units, each named after a season.
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