To live in a consumer culture, bombarded with advertising, retailing and entertainment, it forces people to change their own goals and expectations throughout their lives. Alice Walker, stampeded with beauty expectations, felt as if she was nothing. After her accident occurred that turned her blind, she began comparing herself to others, realizing she was not the same girl she used to be. Walker narrates her battle against these expectations throughout her syntactical autobiography “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” with repetition through anaphoras and isocolons, use of polysyndeton and asyndeton, use of other writings, and her diction that brings the reader a clear description of her life going blind. Alice Walker’s syntactical
