"The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping" is a compelling poem that follows an African woman shopping in London for clothes. She comes to understand that due to her size, she is an outsider. This poem shows the challenges this woman faces while shopping for some clothes. This poem gives an insight into the harsh guidelines in society that has arisen, where there is “Nothing much beyond size 14”. This poem give everyone an the reader a look into the pain women experience when trying to buy comfortable clothes that fit a larger body. The poem starts of by describing shopping as a “real drag”. The poet used colloquial language to show how this woman is annoyed about having to spend her time going shop to shop to find clothing to wear. The use of the word drag also symbolize the motion of slowing pulling something, thats is hard to pull. Showing us that that shopping is slow and hard task. This also creates an image inside the readers head. The next stanza starts with the woman looking at “the frozen thin mannequins fixed with her grin” I find this is one of the key parts as the poet shows us that the idea woman, shown in the mannequins is so thin they looks frozen and close to death. I also think this shows us that there is not much substance to these mannequins and the idea woman figure. The grin fixed on their faces also shows that they are always a pretty face and there's not to much to them. The woman continues to shop when she is faced with another woman “de pretty face sale gals exchanging slimming glances thinking she don’t notice.” This part show the reader that not only are women held back and separated from the ideal woman but that they are by other woman. No woman should be judged purely by her size. As you can not possibly tell what she is like based on just her body size. It’s such a terrible thing yet so many people are judged everyday based on their size. The poem ends with “The fat black woman could