Barbie: The Ideal Woman

Society today, has changed people in the way how they act, and dress. The short story Barbie Q explains that a Barbie is the ideal woman. The Barbie is an example of what women believe to be perfect. The quote “So what if we didn’t Get our new bendable legs Barbie in nice clean boxes and had to buy them on Maxwell street all water soaked and sooty”(Cisneros). This quote means that anyone would buy a Barbie for a cheaper price because they didn’t have the money at the time and who would care if the dolls were wet or smoked. For example the barbie with the melted leg putting a dress on the doll would cover the leg. this event talks about women these days where men rate the women from very beautiful to ugly as they show in the story where the
girls look at the dolls and they take the one with the melted leg. meaning if they were men they would not pick the doll they want the perfect women in today’s society those Barbies are a great example of how some men would react if the girl is really good looking or that the other girl is not very pretty. Most men should look for the personality of the women not by their looks, or what they wear, and how they act. This event with the doll with the melted leg changed the story because those girls were able to accept the doll with its leg melted. They were happy to get it, but if it were a man they would rather get the one without the melted leg.