Fries uses imagery to create a picture to explain how beauty standards affect the way an individual thinks and how they go through variations to become that that beauty wants it to become Being. “I want to break your bones. Make them to look like mine. Forcing you to walk on bowed legs” (Fries 27-29). This quote uses imagery creating the image of breaking someone's bones to show that the individual wants to take someone's legs who they believe fit beauty standards and turn them into their own. Fries also uses images differently by showing where the desire to change body image comes from. “Your smooth skin is no relief from the danger of your eyes” (Fries 47-50). The image of smooth skin shows that even if the individual has delicate skin without blemishes, there is no protection from the damage that the eyes will cause when exposed to different beauty standards that will cause the need to make changes to the skin to comply to different standards of beauty. Without the use of imagery throughout the poem, the reader would not be able to truly understand the picture of what happens when an individual conforms to beauty standards. Without the use of images it would not be understood that there is no true definition of beauty, because there would be no image that shows the reader that what really matters is what is on the surface.