The white ideal misconceived as something to be attained at any cost make the central characters of the novel lose sight of reality and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) begins with a very shocking and devastating revelation about a young girl’s terrifyingphysical violation. Pecola was carrying her father’s baby. Pecola’s story is quite deeply complex than what would meet the external eyes. Pecola’s physical terror is not much when compared with the psychic trauma experienced through her parent’s indifference, inadequacies and misconceptions. The readers, after the initial shock and surprise are taken for a bumpy ride through the childhood, marriage and post marriage horrors anddelusions of Pecola’s parents. The traumatic backgrounds and the fallacies of her parents have converted the family into a crippling and crippled one even before the two children were born. Here, each member finds his or her own ways of searching for the so called ‘ideal state of beauty and wellbeing’ while converting the natural atmosphere into a meaningless and a hopeless one.The paper attempts to shed light on the misconceptions, the resultantbeliefs, internalization of white idealand their implications as faced byPecola and her parents.

misconceptions, aggression,white ideal, ugliness, trauma.