"Barbie Doll"

I believe that in this poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy, describes how some women will change their appearance just to please others. I feel that in the beginning, she had a happy childhood and she was like any typical young girl that played with Barbies which have unrealistic proportions if you compared it to a human being. Society views that beauty resembles the look of a "Barbie Doll" and this is what is instilled in children at such a young age; children are given misguided conceptions of beauty. When she hit puberty, she was teased for her appearance, thus the girl didn't feel beautiful. She was also described as being healthy and intelligent by the speaker. The girl had inner beauty and should have been happy but yet she wasn't because others didn't see her for who she really was. On television you see women all the time getting plastic surgery to try to change their appearance to find happiness, but are they really doing it for themselves and afterward are they ever really truly happy? The girl tried to please everyone else so much that eventually she gave up. The line "So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up" (lines 17-18) does this mean that she did have plastic surgery to change her appearance? The next few lines it says "In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose" (lines 19-21) So did she end up killing herself because she could never find happiness, and it was her only way to find peace? I couldn't believe the end when everyone said that she looked pretty when she was dead. The girl waited her entire life to be told that she was beautiful and was never able to hear it, they waited until after it was too late and she was dead. She had a fake nose and because she was dead her inner beauty was gone. Its unfortunate that some people view beauty in this manner. She was beautiful all along and didn't know it. It kind of made me feel sick at the end and really empathetic for her.