"Barbie Doll"

"Her good nature wore out like a fan belt." This simile gives the impression of an assemble line or a manufacturing process. The poem is about a girl who was always told she had a 'big nose and fat legs.' Nobody noticed anything else besides her physical appearance. She also had many traits that are praised in men and not women. On line 8 it says, "...[she] possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity." This also furthered the reason for her to be an outcast of society. She had to pretend to be someone else to be accepted into society and she eventually stopped and cut off her nose and legs. In the casket, she had a fake nose and people said, "Doesn't she look pretty?" Society inhibits a picture of beauty that no one can have.