Barbie Doll

In poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy it starts out describing a young girls childhood. The first paragraph describes the barbie doll that the girlchild plays with and that is what shapes a girls image of a perfect looking female. As the girlchild gets older she becomes more self concious and begins to notice that she does resemble that perfect female image. As the girlchild got older the other kids began to tease her about her appearance, so she became so uncomfortable with her body she tried to morph it into what she believed was beautiful. The girl then died of old age and was made up to look like a barbie doll in her casket.