How long does it take to read The Bluest Eye?
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison takes about 3 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 181 pages, about 49,775 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 63 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Each night Pecola prayed for blue eyes. In her eleven years, no one had ever noticed Pecola. But with blue eyes, she thought, everything would be different. She would be so pretty that her parents would stop fighting. Her father would stop drinking. Her brother would stop running away. If only she could be beautiful. If only people would look at her. When someone finally did, it was her father, drunk. He raped her. Soon she would bear his child...
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- sexual content
- death of a child
- animal death
- abuse
Subjects: foster care, Dick and Jane, flashback, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, inferiority complex, whiteness
