"Barbie Doll"

In the poem, "Barbie Doll", the subject seemed to be happy growing up as a young child. She played with dolls and not caring about how she looked. She was content with just being a child. She was happy until puberty hit. We can all relate to the major change this was in our lives and the ackward feelings that come with it. Classmates can be critical on how you look and picking out your shortcomings. Piercy writes, "Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:/You have a great big nose and fat legs" (lines 5-6). This time can be hard in anyone's life and words of that nature can hurt for a very long time, as it did in this poem. She offered up her inperfections for aprroval of her peers. The narrator states, "Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said./Consummation at last(lines 23-24). It's too bad that some people just see what's on the outside and not what's within.