comparing poems
gazines promote, is now destroyed, because of the magazines. She also throws her white shoes, which were a connotation of her purity against a wall, and so breaks them. The girl now becomes, "truly, truly frightened," and feels, "cheated by the promise of it all." She sees that her life will be never be the same again and begins to regret and question her actions, "For where, now, was the summer of her sixteenth year? However her questions are much too late. The girl feels betrayed by the media and the boy and tries to pass the blame on to them, by talking of, "glamour with a stammer; Full of fresh fruit diets-how did she feel betrayed?