Barbie Doll

  For this final exam, you were required to read and study Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll,” and Jamaica Kincaid’s, “Girl.” Complete a 500-word in-class essay comparing the protagonist from “Barbie Doll” with the protagonist in, “Girl.” This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending. 1) Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy: https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/lesson/223/Barbie%20Doll%20Marge%20Piercy.pdf?rev=1727 Second topic: Girl by Jamiaca Kincaid: https://macmedplacebo.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/girl-jamaica-kincaid.pdf For this final exam, you were required to read and study Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll,” and Jamaica Kincaid’s, “Girl.” Complete a 500-word in-class essay comparing the protagonist from “Barbie Doll” with the protagonist in, “Girl.” This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending. 1) Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy: https://learn.k20center.ou.edu/lesson/223/Barbie%20Doll%20Marge%20Piercy.pdf?rev=1727 Second topic: Girl by Jamiaca Kincaid: https://macmedplacebo.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/girl-jamaica-kincaid.pdf