The Poem Barbie Doll By Marge Piercy

The poem “Barbie Doll” written by Marge Piercy is about the pressure of fitting into society. We look at a healthy girl that had a normal childhood. She grew up playing with toys according to her gender and was considered smart at school. . This girl had an endless number of qualities for having a wonderful future. Everything for her lost value when in her adolescence a classmate made her feel not beautiful because she did not look like a Barbie doll. There was a time in my life when I experienced similar situations that connect me with the poem. “You have a great big nose and fat legs”(6) takes me back to my puberty. That is the time when our body undergoes huge changes and sometimes we feel ashamed of them. Exactly when I was 10 years old, I noticed some changes in my breasts. They began to grow bigger, and I was trying to hide them even from my mother. Also, I did not want to wear a brazier because at that moment I felt young and I thought, “ Oh my God that’s only for old

We have to understand this quote and put it to function every day, every time. In the poem, there is a line that says “doesn’t she look pretty? Everyone said”(23). With this line, the writer shows how people admire the girl after she changed her nose and legs. She is completely beautiful right now because she is looking like a Barbie doll with her small nose, legs and a slender figure. At that moment she was dead and we assumed it when we read these lines that say, “In the casket displayed on satin she lay/with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on”(19-20). This girl was not happy because she was always worried about looking how people wanted and never loved herself with her own qualities. These days, I am proud of my body as it is, I am not looking like a Kardashian, but everyone knows that Latina women have curves. The most important thing is always to keep our essence and own