Fries uses imagery to create an image explaining how beauty standards affect the way an individual thinks and how they go through variations to become what beauty wants it to be. “I want to break your bones. Make them to look like mine. Force yourself to walk on crooked legs” (Fries 27-29). This quote uses imagery by creating the image of breaking someone's bones to show that the individual wants to take someone's legs that they believe fit the standards of beauty and turn them into their own. Fries uses imagery in a different way as well by showing where the desire to change body image comes from. “Your smooth skin does not protect you from the danger posed by your eyes” (Fries 47-50). Imaging of smooth skin shows that even if the individual has smooth, blemish-free skin, there is no protection against the damage the eyes will cause when exposed to different beauty standards, which will result in the desire to alternate the skin to conform to these. 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 imagery, one would not understand that there is no true definition of beauty, because there would be no image to show the reader that what really matters is what's on top.