“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”-
H.P. Lovecraft. Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy is a poem about the struggles of a
young girl growing up in a world where people only judge her for the way she
looks. She has a normal upbringing as a child but once she hits puberty her
life takes a sudden turn when a classmate bluntly states that she has “a great
big nose and fat legs.” Marge Piercy creates irony all throughout the poem by writing
blunt statements that catch the reader of guard, to make her point that people
only judge others solely on their looks, and lastly to prove the humanity makes
women believe they have to be a certain way to be happy.
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