![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t bother talking much to them, but around his bent head Connie’s mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over. ![]() A typical teenager, Connie’s ideas about the importance of beauty are a reflection of the culture she operates in, where mothers prefer their prettier daughters and social hierarchies are built around looks. Connie’s vanity contributes to her downfall: flattered by the attention of an older man, she allows him to lure her into a conversation that proves to be her undoing. Even when an unknown car pulls into her driveway, her first reaction is not to lock the doors, but to fix her hair. She draws criticism from her mother for constantly checking her reflection in mirrors. Much of Connie’s identity and the core of her self-confidence are centered on her physical beauty. Connie would raise her eyebrows at these familiar old complaints and look right through her mother, into a shadowy vision of herself as she was right at that moment: she knew she was pretty and that was everything. ![]()
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