Character Analysis: Life Is Strange

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In the episodic drama, Life is Strange, we follow Maxine Caulfield and her best friend Chloe Price. The two must work together in order to save Chloe’s best friend, Rachel Amber, who has been missing. Max maybe the main character but Chloe seems to be the real star of the show. Chloe is a rebellious nineteen-year-old girl in a somewhat broken home. She has a great personality, has mixed relationships with the others, and has the greatest part to play in the whole series.

In the first episode, we meet Chloe in the girl’s restroom of the school Max goes to, called Blackwell Academy in Arcadia Bay, Oregon. Chloe seems to be confronting the school’s rich jerk, Nathan Prescott, about some drugs when he pulls a gun on her and shoots her. This is when Max discovers she has the ability to reverse time and saves Chloe. Eventually the two meet up again when Nathan bullies Max and Chloe saves her in her …show more content…

Chloe’s place in the story of Life is Strange is perhaps the biggest part. It’s because of her the search for Rachel Amber begins, and it is also theorized that it’s because of her a massive storm that will destroy their home is coming. In episode three, Max is able to reverse time enough to go back and stop Chloe’s father, William, from dying. This leads to a totally different time-line where Max is friends with Nathan and Chloe is paralyzed and is dying. Max decides this isn’t right and goes back to fix things, setting time back to what it was, all for Chloe. In the end, the two find Rachel’s body and vow revenge when Nathan, who we believe is the killer, threatens to move Rachel’s body. This leads to Chloe freaking out and falling into a trap with Max, causing her to get shot in the head. It hasn’t been confirmed if Chloe is truly dead thanks to Max’s time powers. She may still have a part to play in the future, even if she is truly

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