Through the grotesque imagery of the creation of the doll’s face, Ferré emphasizes the labels and objectivity placed on women through society. While explaining the aunt’s process in making a doll, Ferré emphasizes the creation of the face, saying that the wax face covered with plaster on both sides was “like a living face inside two dead ones”. By personifying the doll’s face, Ferré articulates the similarities of the nieces and the dolls brought upon them by societal labels. In addition, Ferré describes the doll’s face, a literal inanimate object, as “living” yet “dead”, to give personification to the doll, supporting her argument in that society depicts the nieces as nothing but a pretty face to show off. Overall, through dark imagery, Ferré