Aunt Bea's Aesthetic Differences

Once Terry gains her vision, and sees her birthmark for the first time, she doesn't display the same forms of revulsion as Aunt-bea. This is because Aunt Bea’s believes Terry will react to negatively towards her Aesthetic difference (19). This is demonstrated during the preporations for Terry’s surgery and Aunt bea, anticipates the future problems revolve around the purple birthmark. However, the doctor doesn't react with major interest towards the birthmark, this is because people in the medical field would recognize the birthmark as irrelevant, because it doesn't directly impacts Terry’s health. Rather the doctor responds that Terry will have to deal with spatial problems (Dyspraxia), and Aunt-bea disregards the significance of this forboding problem. This is because Aunt-Bea has spatial …show more content…
Rather, it is a subjective disability the agent could ‘hide’ from reality. This is demonstrated with the text suggesting Aunt-bea is developing a mental disorder that causes her to be forgetful (Gowdy 12). This is made apparent when Aunt-Bea’s daughter states “I can’t get it out of my mind that time I came here and you’d left the burner on (8)” Nonetheless, Aunt Bea demonstrates herself as the normal citizen, even though she possess a multitude of impairments the hinders her daily life. however, the reason individuls like Aunt Bea are not repressed from society is because she continues to be utilized in society by fostering disabled children. Arguably, this supports the critique of how a person must demonstrate utility in supporting the socioeconomic structure of society, which enables these individuals to recognized as a proper citizen.
Additionally, critiquing the sociocultural norms that is imbedded in to society. Livneh further explains the sociocultural significance that pushes individuals like Aunt Bea’s who desire to remove Terry’s Birthmark. As Livneh quotes the concepts of the “"body