Mirrorings by Lucy Grealy Essay -- Identity Self Worth Self Esteem ess

Mirrorings by Lucy GrealySure, some of us have this great effrontery within ourselves about looking great, but that does not hold true for every iodin. I understand the pain or disgust, or even disappointment one feels when they look in the mirror and say, I wish I could change this or that about myself. Although this piece is written about the authors life, it holds kernel and connects with for many people one only has to dig deep enough to find one. For me, it was to realize what is important in life can change, adapt and that we must explore our inner selves and find our own path in life.In this piece, Grealy describes the influence of her experiences of cancer, its treatments, and the resulting deformity of her face on her development as a person. She explores how physiological appearance influences ones sexual identity and over all self worth. She also explores how ones own interpretation of ones appearance can be self fulfilling. Only afterward a year of not looking at he rself in the mirror, ironically at a time when she appears more normal than ever before, does Grealy learn to compact her inner self and to see herself as more than ones looks or physical appearance.Now that the summary is out there for all who did not get to read the story lets make some connections to everyday life. In the story is it said by the author that, All the opus I hated myself for having wept before the needle went in, convinced that the nurse and my mother we...