Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll"

I liked Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" I feel it accurately describes the pressures young people (though it focuses on girls guys also experience similar pressures) experience as they grow up. Though the poem was written in 1973 I believe it is still relevant to today's society. Everyone starts off an innocent child, and part of being innocent is not seeing faults with other people. Then when you grow up people start to judge you, and compare you to things. Presently the ideal  American girl looks like a barbie with skinny body and perfect face. Things like healthy, strong,or intelligent don't matter people judge the outside of you. The line "She went too and fro apologizing" could indicate that she was upset that she looked that way and tried to change her appearance to please people possibly going to dangerous lengths that some people go to to change their bodies such as eating disorders. Then not only was her outside appearance judged, but also how she should behave "play coy. . .smile". Until the girl couldn't take the judgement anymore and decided to end her life. The line "to every woman a happy ending" suggesting that only in death can we be beautiful, and no longer judged.