In five pages this paper considers Alice Walker's autobiographical essay. There are two other sources cited in the bibliography.
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and her conflict with her own beauty due to an accident. The essay details her focus on the presumed deformity this accident caused as she searches for her identity, angry
at the ugliness of her appearance. The following paper discusses the main theme and message of the story and then discusses whether her position as an African American woman plays
any significant part in the story. Alice Walkers Personal Essay While many may well argue that Walkers essays theme is that of beauty. That, however, is merely a
tool with which we watch Alice search for her identity. What she was before the accident has changed. As a young girl Alice was all but consumed with her beauty
and her physical appearance, playing it much like a spoiled little girl: "Whirling happily in my starchy frock, showing off my biscuit-polished patent-leather shoes and lavender socks, tossing my head
in a way that makes my ribbons bounce, I stand, hands on hips, before my father. Take me, Daddy, l say with assurance; Im the prettiest!" (Walker NA). She was
blessed, or so she thought, with an incredible beauty and she was very willing to play it and use it, presenting us with a young girl who was perhaps too
immersed in her appearance. And, then comes the accident that will change her life and her perception of herself. Up until the accident Alice relied on her beauty as
the expression of who she was. Now, with an eye that would no longer see, and a presumably hideous white scar, she could no longer face the world. She needed
to find an identity without beauty. However, she did not really find it for some time. She was angry at her eye, and as she states, she would abuse it