Authors Note: This is a character analysis about Massie from the book Clique. I related Massie to Regina Gorge from Mean Girls. They both start out the same and change into better people by the end.
Even though Massie looks hardcore on the outside she will learn that she can be soft and gushy on the inside. . Everyone has an attitude, including Massie. In the book Clique Massie houses her dads long time friend and family until they can find a house. They have a daughter Masses age, Claire. Massie is a 7th grade girl, who lives in Westchester, New York. Her family is rich, they have money, she gets whatever she wants. A main assumption people think of when they hear that you are rich is that you get whatever you want and have the attitude to go with it. Massie thinks she is better than everyone. She thinks she rules the school. She has that if you got it flaunt it attitude. She wants to show everyone how "amazing" she is. She has an attitude with her friends, family, workers, even the people she isn't friends with. She thinks that if you don't have money you can't be her friend because you aren't like her.
Massie has to cancel her shopping trip with her friends because of Clair's arrival. That already doesn't have Claire on Masses' good side. Massie shows up and she is in just normal clothes for a 7th grader. Massie doesn't like it. She doesn't like how she is dressed so normal. Massie is used to the highest fashion there can be for a girl. Massie feels like she is going to be left out, all her friends will have new inside jokes from today and she won't know them. She hates the feeling of being left out. She would rather leave someone out than have it be her. Her mother then orders her to show Claire her room. Massie hates her room, she think it is so "Last Season", but you Claire it is a dream room for her. Massie also has to show Claire where she will be staying, her parents guesthouse.
Claire tries and tries to make Massie like her, but Massie is just so stubborn. Masses friends think that Claire is okay, but because what Massie wants Massie gets, they "don't like Claire". Massie goes as far as to tell them things that aren't true about her. Claire eventually finds a friend that she likes for who she is. Claire still continues to be nice to Massie. Then at a party at Masses house, Massie changes how she thinks about Claire. Claire helps her hide from embarrassment. They end up hiding in some bushes out of site for a couple of hours. They talk and it is nice. Massie finds out that Claire really isn’t different from her and her friends. Massie finally finds out that Claire is nice and funny. In the end of the book she says to claire “ we are going to be friends for a long time.”
Massie is like Regina George from mean girls in some ways. They both are the “popular girls” of the school. They both have money from their parents and are spoiled. They both don’t like the new girls at first, but they end up hanging out with them to make the new girls make fools of themselves. They both end up changing in the end, it takes regen to get hit by a bus and Massie to get embarrassed. They end up realizing that if you aren’t like others that they can be nice and be good friends with them, Massie realise that even though she looks though she has a soft spot for the people that are going to become true friends.
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