A Beautiful Girl We are living in a society where everything is being criticizes starting from where people live to how they look physically. In the United States there has been about one hundred thousand girls diagnosed with anorexia nervosa and six thousand girls have died from it within a year. In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll,” she gives the public of how offensive it can be to a girl when someone criticizes a certain …showed first 75 words of 555 total…

…showed last 75 words of 555 total…operating room. In the end she was considered pretty, but she was characterized by the undertaker’s cosmetics. Even though society criticizes the outside look of women, beauty is found within. In the poem “Barbie Doll” death improved her looks and she never knew it. Women need to learn to take criticism because there will always be some. Through this poem we could see how much man vs. man and man vs. society is important.