![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in death the undertaker applies makeup to the girl and forms her the perfect “…turned up putty nose, dressed in pink and white…” The last lines that Piercy writes say, “Doesn’t she look pretty? Everyone said. She is forever told that she has, “…a great big nose and fat legs.” Eventually the girl is driven mad by trying to fit in and, “…cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up…” and then dies. A “girlchild” is born and from the moment she hits puberty she is struck with the cruelty of the material world. In the poem Barbie Doll, the author Marge Piercy speaks to female readers as she satirizes what society deems a woman.
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