Bernice Bobs Her Hair (F. Scot

Part I of Essay
The author uses hyperbole and metaphors when describing Bernice's feelings as she walked into the barber shop. "Bernice had all the sensations of Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine in a tumbrel." The Sevier Barbershop" was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was ....

Part II of Essay
.... barber's chair - somehow a development of it. It was a new look for Bernice - and it carried consequences." "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is an example of a good short story, because the author effectively uses plot, character, setting, point of view, and literary devices to support the theme. I enjoyed this story more than any of the others I have read, because the theme about superficial popularity and social acceptance is very pertinent. I can see many qualities of the characters in people that I know. ....