She Just Bought A New Hat That's All Analysis

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An obsession with physical image takes over how a person would normally go about their day, being overly consumed with thoughts on how to look rather than being able to enjoy the life they are living in the moment. This can cause a person to spiral out of control of their natural ways of life, where they develop and practice unhealthy routines such as restricting calories, over or under eating, dieting and even self-harm. Forged into the life of secrecy from everyone around her, Sloane becomes tremendously involved with trying to fit in with the crowd. For example, she tells her best friend that “‘[she] just bought a new hat, that’s all’” (94) when in reality she never mentions the additional “two pairs of jeans, four tops, a pair of leather shoes and some designer hairspray thats …show more content…

She confesses in front of her entire school how she’s hurt many people from her actions, and would want a second chance. She earns this by returning to how she used to be, remarking that when “you get bit by a snake, you’re supposed to suck the poison [and] [that’s] what [Cady] had to do, [she] had to suck all the poison out of [her] life”. The venom was all of the toxic sayings, attitudes and views of how to be beautiful that was influenced by the Plastics. People began to notice how she’s become “a mean girl” and could not think about anyone else but herself, realizing by the end of the film that “[Regina] made [her] like this”. When an identity of someone is lost, others will notice the change before the person even does. One of Cady’s old friends are the first to confess to her that “[she’s] [become] plastic…cold, shiny, hard plastic”. This made Cady rethink all that she’s done, and tries to regain herself again once she found out the reality of being someone that she’s

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