In her short story “Resilience”, Barry uses both visible and written cues to show the several demons that existed in her childhood. Her written thoughts are restrained by her present emotions but the dialogue is a glimpse into how she still feels about past situations. In one of the panels, Barry discusses how she began “doing things that scared me but made me feel exhilaratingly whole”(Barry 71). Her drawings show how Barry usually gave into sex in school because of a past rape; she didn’t want to do it, but she couldn’t stop.
