A Woman’s Place in Society Explored in Marge Piercy’s Barbie Doll Essay

Society has a way of placing kafkaesque expectations on women. By using television, magazines, billboards, and even toys we see a puzzle out of what women are supposed to look same. In other words the utter(a) woman should look like a Barbie Doll. In Marge Piercys, Barbie Doll, we queue up a girl child growing up through the adolescence stage characterized by appearances and barbarity. Piercy uses lots of personary to describe the struggles the girl experiences during her teenage long time and the effects that can happen. In the first stanza we see the beginning of an archetype image being stained in the girls mind. She was ...presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE ovens and bonds and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy (2-4). By being presented these gifts the girls parents have already instilled a visualization of what the perfect woman is like and the girl is already learning her place in society. The poem was pen in 1936. In this day and age women were st ill seen as objects and not really people. Their place was in the kitchen and taking care of the kids. Piercy has painted an image to the reader of a little girl playing with toy stoves and irons and wearing red lipstick to make herself pretty. The tone of the poem takes a turn toward a more bold statement when the author uses ...the charming of puberty (5) to describe the age where appearance comes into effect. The girl was insulted by a classmate who made humiliating comments about her nose and...