Dusting by Julia Alvarez

I like this poem because the subject that is spoken about is so simple but impacts a person greatly. The mother's act of dusting away her daughter's marks on the furniture in a way takes her "stamp" on life away. She wants to make a name for herself and be somebody. In the last lines of the poem she expresses this by saying that she doesn't want to be a nobody like her average mother. I believe that this girl is creative and wants her name to mean something one day and by dusting away her name her dream is being taken away as well.