Societies have a few on how women should look and act. The standard of beauty is different in each society, but they all are to fit the idea of men, and the roles are the same way. Women are expected to meet the beauty imposed upon them by society. One could be perfectly healthy, smart, and funny. However, if the woman is not beautiful, which is defined by what men think, she shall be ignored and viewed as unwanted. In “Flower Feet” by Ruth Fainlight the narrator tells of how women would ruin their feet to fit into unbelievable small shoes. “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy shares the same concepts of how men expect women to be beautiful. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” the wife of the narrator is murdered because she is not simply allowed to explore her curiosity. The societies have oppressed the women into falling for the standard of beauty presented by men and forced the women into fitting wife …show more content…
Young girls are forced to wear awful shoes that are “like toys” (2). The young girls must fit into small shoes that often make the foot grow in a wrong position, and the toes fold under the feet causing them to break. The pain of having toes broken constantly is awful itself, but when they are bent back and secured tight is worse. The experience is compared to “raw stumps” and how the stumps would have felt better than leaving the toes broken in the shoes (8). Girls from a young age have been forced to break their toes and change the natural shape of feet. It is the young girl's role to wear the tiny shoes to look delicate in order to get married into wealthy families. The mothers are forced by the roles of the society to make the daughters endure the torture. The poor girls are used as a means to make the family wealthy rather than consider the pain the girls will face. The only reason the girls face such awful pain is to get