While completing the reading for class, I was sort of dumbfounded by the content of "My Jewish Nose." I had never realized that there was such pressure for so many other cultures to eliminate/extinguish their ethnic uniqueness to conform to the WASP standard of beauty. I was also amazed by the amount of pressure put upon the author, Lisa Jervis, by family and other sources to surgically alter her appearance. No wonder women's self- worth is often devastatingly entangled with their body image; Jervis' own father essentially tells her that without plastic surgery, he would never have been interested in Jervis' mother. (The ramifications of the nose "knows" no boundaries!) She states: "Even my father is a believer. He says that without my my mother's nose job, my sister and I wouldn't exist, because he never would have gone out with Mom" (63). The message here is clear: if you do not adhere to these standards of beauty, you will not be able to live a fulfilled life and will possibly alienate yourself from potential spouses. Agggggggh!