The subject is a "girlchild" like every other girl child-she was "born as usual" (1). Women are thus made to feel that they are failures when they do not achieve that level of perfection, a level unrealistic in its demands and met only by a tiny percentage of women. The Barbie Doll is used both as an ideal and as an impossible goal, and the theme reiterates the idea that women are expected in this society to live up to this impossible ideal. Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" is a poem which uses the idea of the Barbie Doll in its positive and negative aspects to develop a theme related to a real woman in the real world.
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