Summary Of The Girl With Bangs By Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith’s “The Girl with Bangs” is a story about concealment and symbolism. Through the narrator’s subtle imagery the story illuminates the misbeliefs the narrator has when it comes to their attraction for Charlotte and blindness towards her faults. Ultimately, the story suggests that Charlotte’s bangs act as a; concealer of her faults and as a symbol of perfection which increases the narrators desire for her, however, when the narrator realizes that Charlotte is who she thought she was the allure of the bangs disappears.

The narrator’s blindness towards Charlotte’s substantial amount of faults she possess implies that she is blinded by Charlotte’s bangs. The narrator describes the appearance of Charlotte when she says: “I’d see her