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Alice Walker’s essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Talks the Self,” is about self-realization and how the universe is defined by our choices as well as what we choose it to be. The essay shifts our focus from the outward world, where appearances are everything, to the inside world, where appearances are only a small portion of the true nature. Alice Walker, at the age of two and a half, demonstrates her confidence in her attractiveness by telling her father, “Take me daddy,” when she wants to go to the fair with him. “I am the prettiest.”
In the text, “Everyone was admiring her gorgeous clothing” on that particular morning, Alice says, but “It is not her dress people appreciate, but it is her personality they adore.” Furthermore, she also understands that she is not only conscious of her appearance but also confident in her talents when everyone was admiring her on Easter Sunday. In addition, she was shot in the eye with a BB pistol by her brother when she was eight years old when they were playing cowboys and Indians. The accident leaves a lovely, intelligent, and gregarious young lady with a shattered sense of self-worth.
Walker no longer notices her intelligence or her lovely demeanor; all she notices now is the ugliness of her eye. She used to perform well in school, but now she is failing. When her friends inquired, “What’s wrong with your eye?” she felt embarrassed about them asking about her eye. She then took on the persona of “the girl who doesn’t raise her head.” Instead of praying for sight, she prayed for beauty. She went to her brother to take her to the hospital to remove the white mark from her eye. Then, the surgeon removes the whitish glob there.
The deformity has faded somewhat, but her rage remains unresolved. Despite knowing this, she “raises her head once again” and everything else falls into place for her. Alice Walker is now a wife, mother, and novelist at the age of 27. She struggles with the actual meaning of beauty even as an accomplished adult. When her child was not as brutal in her honesty as youngsters are prone to be, her dread faded. Alice Walker’s perceptions of beauty transformed when her daughter told her, “Mommy, there’s a world in your eye.” Her daughter’s acceptance makes her feel “joyous” and happy than she has in her whole life.
This is the turning point in her life. Fully, her sentiments and her unexpected epiphany were welcomed, and she felt entire again, finally in touch with the dancer within herself. She’s made the transition from outward to inside beauty, recognizing that it’s not just about appearances. She’s progressed from immaturity to maturity, and from being a fragmented self to being a complete self. With the discovery and acceptance of who she was, she felt whole. She now appreciates her eye because she understands what it has taught her about guilt, wrath, and inner vision.
Her happy ending is the knowledge that she has rediscovered her love for herself. The dancer with the brilliant face. Beautiful, complete, and unrestricted.
