Everyone is self conscious about how they look. However, each person possesses different levels of insecurity. Throughout the poem “Barbie Doll” by Margie Piercy, a girl’s self consciousness overcomes her and forces her to take drastic measures. In the beginning, ”this girlchild was born as usual”(1) and she doesn’t have a care in the world; she lives her life in a drama-free zone. Everything is perfectly fine until the young women goes through puberty and is inevitably made fun of. She excelled at school and “possessed strong arms and back”(8) but the people in her life only saw the unlikeable characteristics of her body. Society pressures her into changing the way she looked by participating in numerous activities, and she was pushed too
