This poem is basically talking about a girl’s life cycle. Right as the girl was born she was given those dolls that represent what society is going to want her to be when she grows up. When the girl was in school someone called her fat and which then a whole chain of events, she started seeing all the insecurities inside her that society was not going to accept. “She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle” (12-15). She ended up killing herself showing to us that society defeated her and got the best of