Looking around now, I see different things that affect how I feel. Seeing flowers might make me feel joyful, but when viewing old nails I don’t feel as nice inside. Walking around in the woods behind her house, Myop also has lovely feelings that inspire more adventure. The barbie doll loving narrator has many different feelings through out the short story. In the short stories “Flowers” and “Barbie-Q,” Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros both use imagery to create a specific mood. In “Flowers” Walker uses imagery of the setting to develop a carefree and peaceful mood that establishes understanding for the actions of the main character, Myop. For a ten year old girl, Myop has yet to experience the world. Skipping through the woods, “ nothing
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This helps the reader to understand the mood of the short story, which is young and hopeful. At a flea market the main character takes notice of the items being sold, “Lying on the street next to some tool bits, and platform shoes with the heels all squashed ... and dusty mason jars, and a coffee can full of rusty nails.” Laying on the round among all the grungy, old possessions being sold were “Two Mattel boxes. One with the ‘Career Gal’ ensemble, snappy black-and-white business suit, three-quarter-length sleeve jacket with kick-pleated skirt, red sleeveless shell, gloves, pumps, and matching hat included… How much? Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, until they say okay” (Cisneros 1). This imagery of all the drab and typical aged items you would discover at a flea market symbolizes the narrator because she is not the Barbie doll she longs to be like someday. The narrator is enamored by these dolls and their flawless lives in which she realizes she will never have. The fact that she may not have a large amount of money to afford a countless number of Barbie ensembles and dolls shows that she is very appreciative which connects back to the buoyant and promising mood of this short
This helps the reader to understand the mood of the short story, which is young and hopeful. At a flea market the main character takes notice of the items being sold, “Lying on the street next to some tool bits, and platform shoes with the heels all squashed ... and dusty mason jars, and a coffee can full of rusty nails.” Laying on the round among all the grungy, old possessions being sold were “Two Mattel boxes. One with the ‘Career Gal’ ensemble, snappy black-and-white business suit, three-quarter-length sleeve jacket with kick-pleated skirt, red sleeveless shell, gloves, pumps, and matching hat included… How much? Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, until they say okay” (Cisneros 1). This imagery of all the drab and typical aged items you would discover at a flea market symbolizes the narrator because she is not the Barbie doll she longs to be like someday. The narrator is enamored by these dolls and their flawless lives in which she realizes she will never have. The fact that she may not have a large amount of money to afford a countless number of Barbie ensembles and dolls shows that she is very appreciative which connects back to the buoyant and promising mood of this short