A Beautiful Gril
We are living in a society where everything is being criticizes starting from where people live to how they look physically. In the United States there has been about one hundred thousand girls diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and six thousand girls have died from it within a year. In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll,” she gives the public of how offensive it can be to a girl when someone criticizes a certain part of her body. Some girls may take meaningless comment said to them in a bad way. May be it could have been a good criticism, but teenage girls are very sensitive at this age. Although the protagonist attempts to confront the external forces (man vs. man and man vs. society), she succeeds to a certain extent but fails to resolve with the internal force of man vs. himself. . . .
t the author present in the poem is man vs. They just see the fat nose and thick legs. ” This type of advice can change a person’s personality to where she does not even know who she is anymore. Going through it, but do not pay attention, their body changes are noticed until it is recognized by someone else other than friends or family. This is where the girl in the poem had trouble; she could not find herself anymore. Some may think she gave up and either she kills herself or dies in the operating room. Even though she has these qualities, people do not see her for who she is. In the poem, “she was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile, and wheedle. In the poem “Barbie Doll” death improved her looks and she never knew it. Even though society criticizes the outside look of women, beauty is found within. She did not worry about what was going around her. In the end she was considered pretty, but she was characterized by the undertaker’s cosmetics. Some do not realize they can be cruel to others by the way they see a person or even talking to a person.
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