Imagery in To My Bones
However, this tone and general sense changes quickly as the narrator's eating disorder slowly manifests itself, the images becoming more grotesque and horrifying while the text conveys the growing sense of dread and fear brought upon by the anxiety and anorexia gnawed away at her. This shift is very obviously signified in the next picture with an image of her, crouched down, head in her hands, naked. The words at the top of the screen saying "It wasn't good enough". Floating around her are the self-deprecating words that her anxiety whispers into her ears letting her know she wasn't good enough.
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