The point of view used in The Bluest Eye and "Going to Meet the Man" evokes different emotions from similar actions. Both stories depict characters who engage in aggressive sexual behavior to dominate. In “Going to Meet the Man,” the point of view elicits no compassion for Jesse, an aggressive oppressor. Conversely, the reader feels sympathy for Cholly in The Bluest Eye because the point of view depicts him as a wretch unable to control his heinous sexual assaults. Jesse attends a "picnic" with his family that celebrates white power in the country. extreme punishment of a black man for a seemingly minor act. Jesse's family emerges from a tunnel of trees to join other white families in a clearing on top of a hill. Among the crowd, “there was a fire. [Jesse] couldn't see the flames, but he smelled the smoke,” Jesse's father places him on his shoulders to give him a better view (1759). Jesse's father made a conscientious effort to indoctrinate his son into the white man's mentality as he experiences the white man's perspective on the lynching of the black man. Jesse realizes that the whites “wanted to make death wait: and it was they who held death, now, on a leash that they were lengthening little by little” (1760) by observing the black man's struggle to stay alive. The torture excites Jesse, he “felt his scrotum tighten; and enormous, enormous, much larger than the flabby, hairless thing of his father, the largest thing he had ever seen until then, and the blackest” (1760). The description of the castration is erotic, "the white hand stretched them, rocked them, caressed them", prefiguring the nature of his future sexual tendencies (1760). The black man is taller and darker than anything Jesse has seen before, in direct contrast...... middle of paper...... impulsivity leads him to tenderly attack his daughter, Pecola . The contemptuous act of rape was not born of hatred nor motivated by race. Cholly's actions were born from his own feelings of worthlessness. “Hate would not let him take her in his arms, tenderness forced him to cover her,” reflects his moral ambivalence (163). Cholly's remorse emphasizes the view that, despite his weakness, he has some idea of ​​what is right. The reader feels sympathy for Cholly because, in many ways, he is the victim. The point of view in The Bluest Eye depicts Cholly as the blacks oppressed by Jesse in "Going to Meet the Man". Jesse and Cholly are two violent men who engage in aggression for sexual satisfaction. The point of view in which each story presents these characters strongly influences the reader's impression of their moral fiber..