Ap Language and Composition Beauty whenthe other dancer is self

By Writing Beauty:When the other dancer is the self Alice Walker gives us a very vivid snapshot of how her life was affected by a childhood injury that left her blind in one eye. In the beginning of the story she describes herself as a snobbish child who abuses the facts that she is beautiful. “Take me Daddy,I say with assurance; “I’m the prettiest!”(Walker 657) After the incident she feels very insecure about herself But by the end of the story she’s back to the same “i'm pretty” mentality she had when she was a little girl. “ That night I dream I am dancing to Stevie Wonder’s song “ Always (the name of the song is really “As”, but I hear it as “Always”). As I dance, whirling and joyous, happier than I’ve ever been in my life, another bright faced dancer joins me. We dance and kiss each other and hold each other through the night. The other has obviously come through all right, as I have done. She is beautiful,whole and free. And she is also me.”(Walker 663) The Image of the two dancers resolves the essay and is the true resolution for walker because she says when she is dancing she is happier than she's ever been in her whole life and describes the other dancer as beautiful, whole and free. When she says the other dancer is also her we have no choice but to assume that she has found the beauty in herself and is no longer self conscious or feels the need to keep her head down because she is beautiful.