Diction in The Bluest Eye

One of my first observation after reading The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is the specific stylistic choices that are used to open the novel. The telling and retelling of the story of Dick, Jane, Mother, and Father, serves as an opening backdrop for the novel. The story of the fictional family, at least in the eyes of the children in the novel, is the story of the perfect  white American family which differs greatly from the life of the poor black family. As the story is retold again, the punctuation is removed creating a continuous and flowing dialogue.Although I was at first unsure of what this stylistic change represented, time has led me to conclude that in a way it is almost an attempt by main character Claudia to insert herself into the fictional reality that is the world of Dick and Jane, and to remove herself from the reality of her own childhood. The future deconstruction of the passage through the removal of the separation between the words seems to represent a continued attempt to make fiction become reality through repetition, similar to a child closing their eyes and wishing for something to occur. Overall, I believe that this opening scene connects back to the title of the work, The Bluest Eye, in that is represents a desire for ethnic children to live the homogenized and idealized white childhood just like Dick and Jane in the same way that Pecola wishes for "pretty blue eyes."