The Emergence of Femininity in "The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sharon Olds.
"The One Girl at The Boys Party" by Sharon Olds is about the personal journey of the discovery of feminine sexuality in the life of an adolescent female. In this confusing journey mathematics are used metaphorically to describe the girls new found sexuality.
The girl attempts to deny the emergence of her femininity though the impersonal use of mathematics in order to intellectually repress her true sexual being.
The girl in this poem is young and with her youth comes a sense of innocence however the poem demonstrates the sexual awakening the girl incurs.
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