A Womanist Girl Analysis

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Even though she was the most beautifulist girl anyone has ever seen, she wanted what every other girl had, she had the best dress on and all the girls wanted iit but she wanted the purse and the gloves that every other girl has. In paragraph 14, she is getting the gloves because she saw a girl wearing them, "When she reached the glove counter she remembered that gloves were also worn by the women she had seen. She took a pair from the case and tried to fit them upon her stiff, wax-coated fingers; but the gloves were too small and ripped in the seams." She didnt know that she was what every girl wanted to look like she just wanted to look like

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