Barbie Doll

Barbie Doll
Marge Piercy

"So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up." (836). The title of the poem is barbie doll, as everyone obviously saw. A barbie doll is what people looked to as that perfect figure or that perfect look. If one does not look like a barbie doll, then they are different, and different is not good. I'm not saying that because I believe it, but because that is what society usually portrays.The grandchild was said to have a big nose and thick legs; therefore she cut them off and was then said to be pretty. This poem has that underlying meaning that each girl shoots to be that barbie doll person. However, they change something about themselves that allows other people to view them as beautiful, but they aren't any prettier. Being just like everyone else or losing the uniqueness makes the person less beautiful not more beautiful. This is why the grandchild is pictured as being in a casket. She killed her true self to be like everyone else, and in that she lost who she really was.