While I was growing up, I used to have fun playing with Barbie's. It was the one toy I cherished and dreamt about how perfect my life would be, having the perfect job, the perfect appearance, the perfect car, and also having the perfect friends. In Barbie-Q, Cisneros portrays the Barbie doll as the "perfect woman" who I assume represents as the "white or Caucasian woman, while the damaged Barbie dolls can't be symbolized as the perfect woman because it represents the woman of color or minority, and also poverty. The way Cisneros describes all the possessions of Barbie shows how much detail she knows as a young girl about every piece and how much she dreamt of having.
             In the second paragraph, the significance of the "same story" that the girls play all the time depicts how they have limited scenarios and they have to make believe that the Ken doll exists. Due to their poverty, they can't afford to buy the other dolls that Barbie is friends with to make believe more scenarios and stories. They would "rather ask for a new Barbie outfit next Christmas" than to fight over the Ken doll in the same story especially if he is real and visible.
             Cisneros illustrates the story's setting, Maxwell Street, as a deprived and ghetto neighborhood. She says, "Lying on the street next to some tool bits...hubcaps... dusty mason jars, and a coffee can full of rusty nails." It's significant because it shows how impoverished of a community that they live in.
             The social commentary shows how the wealthy take for granted what they have and the two girls show how fortunate they are to actually have a Barbie doll. The protagonist shows how lucky she is to have the burned Barbie doll, that "smell[ed] like smoke when you hold them to your nose even after you wash... them." Even if she didn't get the new Bendable Legs Barbie and friends she feels that "who's to know...