Images of Beauty

In the story Plaits the author is saying that society is inputting on us this image of being attractive. In the story the author explains that she wanted to look and feel pretty. And the image that she uses is Shirley Temple. She wanted to have beautiful curls just like Shirley. She wanted to have this golden hair that represented sweetness and light. Instead she describes having bad topsy hair. She says that everyone wanted to have these blonde silky curls. The author is telling us that the American society only gives images of these creamy-skinned people as how we are suppose to look. Every time society gives us an image like that we are brained washed into looking that same way. Society portrays females as being beautiful and good-looking with blonde hair or curls. Society has always had a lot of power over us and unfortunately we are manipulated.