The Bluest Eye (1970), Toni Morrison's first novel, written while teaching at Howard University, focuses on the oppression of the characters black women 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 her childhood because she is ugly and black and no one likes her because Pecola comes from a poor family, cut off from the normal life of a community and faces final humiliation and the betrayal of his own father. Cholly rapes Pecola. Pecola's passage in the company of the whores shows the signals of his deep feeling 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 thirst for love and respect leads her into the fantasy world. Keywords: Oppression, inferiority, ugly, black, humiliation, betrayal, loneliness, racism, classism, sexism and fantasy. INTRODUCTION The Bluest Eye (1970), Toni Morrison's first novel, written while she taught at Howard University. The main character, Pecola, is based on a real girl Morrison met when she was 11 years old. She and the little girl argued about whether God exists or not. Morrison thought so, but the little girl disagreed. The main conflict of this novel concerns black women becoming the central object of oppression, as the black female characters in the novel are portrayed as victims of different sexes or genders and also victims of classes and races 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 the fiction of Toni Morrison”, Contemporary Literature, 23, 3 (1982). Gibson, Donald B. (1989), "Text and Countertext in Toni Morrison's TheBluest Eye", Lit: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, Vol. 1 n° 1-2, p. 19-32. Grewal, Gurleen (1998). Circles of Grief, 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 the Black Book,” Black World, 23 (1974). Strouse, Jean. “Toni Morrison: BlackMagic.” Newsweek, March 30 (1981).