role model is a person looked to by others, as an example to be imitated (Dictionary.com). As following time, young children have Barbie dolls to play with, and have became the new role models for them. At this time in their life, they are impotent to attempting to achieve the unreachable image Barbie is portraying as a role model. The author Alison Townsend, uses literary devices of symbolism and imagery to stress of the story. Imagery uses context to describe the feminine characters in an individual’s existence. The narrator compares the ‘normal doll to the girl’s perfect doll’, using the literary device of imagery. She conveys: “Barbie was Barbie, the same impossible body when you stripped off her suit, peeling it down over those breasts
