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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 h ....

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.... the set look she had worn in the 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. ....