An interaction between Tally and her friend Shay makes clear the irony of becoming “pretty”. “You’re still yourself
From feeling like she didn't belong and was all alone, she changes and realizes that some things are worth fighting
Lastly, we learn she manages her shame by accepting who she is, a “flawed crippled body”, and realizing she has nothing
The main character Tally Youngblood spends her whole life waiting for the day that she will become pretty, until she meets somebody named Shay. Shay has no intention of becoming pretty, and plans to leave the city. After Shay leaves, Tally gets held back by special circumstances and is told she must go outside past the city and find Shay. Tally finds an entire community of people who managed to escape before they turned pretty, and discovers the secret about the surgery. That causes her to realise that life isn’t about who looks the prettiest, it’s
In this moment she is able to be happy with who she is and does not want to go back to the car only to resume her role as a different person again. Her embracing who she is and how she feels makes her happy. Unlike when she was pretending to be someone
She is making it known that in her own experience, letting go of a desperate need to be perfect and working on who you are is the best thing you can do for yourself.
She faces powerful adversity as a teenager, which puts her in a hole. She didn’t let that stop her though. This represents how she made the change to want to get better, and developed a self-motivator within
Depending upon what society says is pretty is what everyone believes is beautiful, therefore, Ms. Tyler believes that she was not beautiful enough. (“The Eye of the
She is content with the life she has and realizes through her doctor that she did get more good out of life than
Her complete personality change also brings about a new feeling of job security and security in herself as a person, knowing that she now was one of
Though she doesn’t seem ready yet as she says “We are tired of being beautiful”. Another example of her growing maturity is in the vignette “Hips”. It seems like all of the sudden her hips are there. They are different, they are larger, they define you as a woman. You now tell the difference from a man and a woman through their hips.
She finally realizes the true meaning of being an
She thought she needed a man to be herself when she really did not and she figured that out. She found her confidence on her own because of who she is just like the woman in “Phenomenal
She begins to realize within time that unfortunately she has taken
Connie does this because she needs to be reassured that she is in fact pretty. On top of this, Connie acknowledges that her beauty is “everything”(1). This statement implies that if perhaps Connie was not beautiful, she would have nothing. Furthermore, when Arnold Friend pulls up at Connie’s house, her heart begins to pound not because there is a stranger at her door, but because she is “wondering how bad she looked”(2). Even when faced with possible danger,
