Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
This poem is very sad. It was written awhile ago but still today we see the same things. Girls trying to look like what the girls look like in magazines and tv. You're supposed to be perfect, skinny, good nose, perfect skin. I think this is what this poem is trying to say. She was born a girl and in her time she was expected to be the perfect girl, but when she started to grow up she was told she wasn't good enough. She was told to do so many things to get to where she needed to be as a girl, but then she got rid of her flaws and dies because of it. When she was lying in the casket then did she get approval of how she looked. Marge Piercy says at the end, "To every woman a happy ending" It should be this way, but only this way when you are comfortable with who you are, not in the way that you try so hard to be what is expected that you end up dead, or sick.
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