In Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, the author, Toni, uses piquant and

accurate words, which create a gloomy and depressing tone. For

example in page forty-one, in the Autumn section of the novel, Pecolas
mother, Mrs. Breedlove, is heating up a fight with her husband for
coming home drunk, Pecola describes how these fights her mother
routinely starts relieve her from the miserable life she lives, she
expresses this by saying, They relieved the tiresome of poverty, gave
grandeur to dead rooms. While she might not expand a whole lot in
what she is saying with these few words you can interpret a lot, you
can assume that her family is crippled, they lack love and unity, there
is no warmth in her home, she also doesnt only blame poverty itself,
but by mentioning, Dead rooms, you can foretell that the family
environment she lives in isnt the most jubilant. This word choice
creates a gloomy and somewhat depressing tone because Pecola is
walking you into her daily life routine which includes her parents
fighting and how that establishes the environment, and it also gives
you a peek on what Pecola thinks by the way she describes the event.
Also in the Autumn section of the novel, in page thirty-four, the words
patchwork quilt of reality are used, they are being used to describe
how the Breedloves lived, how they lived in that grey old house. Each
member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his
own patchwork quilt of reality-collecting fragments of experiences
here, pieces of information there. How the author uses the words to
describe how the Breedloves functioned is accurate and gives you a
rich picture of what she means, and how she is the describing how
everyone in the family was very independent and only minded their
own business. By the author stating that each member built their own
patchwork quilt of reality it creates a tone somewhat depressing
because it shows how lonely each person in the Breedlove family is
and how they go on in their life course making connections and moving
on without each others support, they do it alone.