Analysis Of The Essay 'When The Other Dancer' By Alice Walker

¨Beauty: when the other dancer is itself¨ by Alice Walker, is a short essay going through the different conflicts and situations Walker faced after the tragedy that her brothers caused. Before the accident, Walker described herself as being the best of them all, the prettiest, the most confident, and was always loved by everyone. Everything was going great until the day one of her brothers shot her in the eye with one of their new pellet guns, given to them by their father. Due to this, Walker lost confidence within her, she received a scar from that day, making her feel hideous and distinct from other people. Walker was still given attention from others around her, the downside was that this was all negative attention where people judged her …show more content…
Walker now having a daughter, fears her own child will someday start asking questions, wondering why her mom looks different from other people. Walker is now prepared for this moment to get here because she knows how cruel and cold kids can be, mainly because they are just honest and don't think about the harms they can cause to other individuals. Walker thought her daughter would grow up thinking her mother was weird, and not normal like other people. She feels like one day, her daughter will be ashamed of having her as a mother. This all changed when she was just about to put her daughter to sleep and the child just stared at her eye in a way she had never done before, ¨Mommy, there´s a world in your eye; mommy, where did you get that world inside your eye¨(47). This made Walker see life in a completely different way, she saw that in the very inside, her daughter would never judge her or ever be ashamed of her because Walker was her world, as well as she was Walker´s own little piece of life. This helped her bring up her self esteem because she then realized that all this time, people´s thoughts made no harm to her, and from then on, all that mattered was her being happy with her