In the essay, “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker, is about self

realization, and that the world is what we make it to be. As a child Alice Walker has great

confidence in herself, her capabilities, and her beauty or cuteness. We see the different changes

and her realizations about herself, that she goes through throughout her life. In the end Walker

realizes that she has the whole world at her fingertips and can succeed at whatever she wants to

She shows that she is confident in her beauty at the age of two and a half when she wants to go

to the fair with her father and tells him “take me daddy. I’m the prettiest.” She also shows she is

confident in her capabilities and her beauty on Easter Sunday, 1950, when she is all dressed up

in a green, flocked, scalloped-hem dress that had a smooth, satin petticoat and hot pink roses.

She feels everyone is admiring her beautiful dress. Alice also states that it was not her dress

they admired, but it was her spirit they adored. She thanks them to this day for saying things like

“isn’t she the cutest thing” or “and got so much sense” becau

confidence in herself again. You see this because she raises her head. When she raises her

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