'Barbie-Q by Sandra Cisneros'

'In Sandra Cisneross Barbie-Q, a childs fascination of imperfectioned Barbie dolls makes the teller take her own identity by disposing the alliances ideals of women. Barbie is the tall, skinny, blonde, fair-skinned, beautiful, successful, and amusement fictional sheath that every infantile lady friend wants to be outgrowth up. Barbie has a perfect body, the supreme wardrobe, and can run low a elegant life of fun. The narrator opens the short reputation by introducing the Barbies with which the both girls argon compete. They argon old and gaunt out, but the girls p arents do non reserve enough gold to buy juvenile ones. This is why the girls are so brainsick to find roughly for sale at the flea market. Each of these Barbies has some(a) unique flaw due to a toy storage warehouse on Halsted lane burning down. Cisneros expresses her tier virtually orderliness and how we portray women to be perfect and materialistic, when in reality, we are non perfect and w e as women each take up flaws. In Barbie-Q, Cisneros makes a critique astir(predicate) societys assumptions of gender roles, bug outances of women, and expectations of women.\nIn the second paragraph, the girls take on societys gender roles in their play: all time the uniform story. Your Barbie is roommates with my Barbie, my Barbies boyfriend comes over and your Barbie steals him, okay? (Cisneros 559). The non-existing knowingness doll is the fountains way of accentuating her theme about societys assumptions of young womens interests in men and relationships. The author makes the young girls appear to be pertain on the centre and attention from boys. Cisneros makes it trim that the two girls are younger, and young girls should not be view about boys, they should be playing with dolls and playing dress up. The two girls are growing up besides fast and should not be fixated on the knowledge of boys.\n passim the short story, Cisneros shows that the girls Barbie dolls ar e flawed. She makes it known to the readers that these t... '