The Perception Of Vanity In Alice Walker's Beauty

Alice Walker is an amazing writer. She has the ability to remember small details about her life that makes this essay perfect. This amazing woman, carefully selects from three areas of her personal experiences in life, and she shares them with us in “Beauty” when the other dance is the self. Thus, we are captivated at the beginning of her story by self fulfilling prophecy of her vanity. We feel the painful shame when she is disfigured after being shot in the eye by her brother who asks Alice to go against her faith, and lit to cover it up. And finally, we rejoice with her and God, because she spiritually matures when the glob is removed from her eye. After six years of looking down with one eye, Alice is ready to face the world head on. In the first stage of this profile writer’s year of 1947, pre-civil rights era of being black in the south and poverty shed. She never experienced poverty; because of Alice’s vanity, was very prevalent at that time. She are along with her father, who had a magical sense of humor, helped the family overcome being poor. She was the pawn of the family. All of …show more content…
Her confidence was extremely low. Her pretty world had come to an end. She would look at things different now. Alice was so ashamed of the glob on her eye, that she would hold her head down and/ or got to her room and read whenever someone come around. Alice lost everything that was dear to her after the so called accident…. including her daddy. That once smart, pretty little girl who was the apple of her daddy’s eye, and who shined in church with her Ester speeches and glamour, had died emotionally. The children in the condemned jail house school that she attended tortured her as if she truly was in prison, because of her ugly eye. Little did Alice know that she was reaching into bad of an ugly, scared, blinded eye and pulling out of it the good of becoming the dynamic writer that she is