Barbie Girl Character Analysis

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Barbie Girl captures the essence of Daisy Buchanan. All Daisy truly cares about in life is being the prettiest girl in parties , even if that means that being in loveles marrige. When Daisy says “ I hope she’ll be a fool” it shows how much Diasy loves her life of being a beautiful ditsy foul in comfortable life. She is fine with being treated liked a Barbie doll and having no control of her life as long as she has a comfrotable lifestyle.

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