Marge Piercy's If I Had Been Called Sabrina Or Ann

In the poem from Marge Piercy’s If I had been called Sabrina or Ann, she said, the narrator’s tone towards her name and how it affected her life was very mournful and downcast. Her choice of diction portrayed that she was absolutely disgusted with her name. A quote that supports this claim is, “Useful, plain; impossible for foreigners, from French to Japanese, to pronounce.” She is indicating that her name is dull, uninteresting, and unreasonably hard to pronounce. Because of the title of this excerpt, the reader can deduct that the narrator spends a wealth of time speculating on what her life experience would have been like if she had another name, since she feels that the name “Marge” was disgraceful and pathetic compared to other names such