Critique of Alice Walker's "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self"

In her personal essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self," Alice Walker recounts the childhood accident that blinded her left eye and left a permanent scar, and she explains how that scar affected her academically, socially, professionally, and as a mother. This essay is properly placed in the Voice chapter of Burroway's book because Walker creates a clear persona through her diction and style of writing. Walker looks in retrospect at how the scar, in many ways, shaped her life--acknowledging the negative effects regretfully, but noting how her toddler daughter's innocent remarks about her eye changed her perception of what she perceived to be nothing more than an ugly reminder of an ugly incident.