Cady Heron

Cady Heron changes dramaticaly throughout mean girls. In the begginging when Cady had just started her first day of high school, she seemed very innocent and nice to everyone; however near the end Cady is fake just like the plastics. We see this change due to Cady wearing more make up, worrying what she looks like, and starts to wear more revealing clothing e.g. short skirts and low tops. This change of character really shows the audience how easy it is to get manipulated/transformed into someone you're not due to wanting to 'fit in.'  

During the course of the film Mean Girls, Cady experiences several personality modifications. At the beginning of the film when we first see Cady she is friendly, she knew who she was and she acted and looked like an average student. Through the length of the film she is negatively influenced by Janis and Damien who changes her views and manipulates her into hanging out with the plastics which progressively makes Cady lose her individual personality and changes herself in the image of Regina. Regina is also known as the “Queen Bee” of the plastics. Cady becomes as nasty as Regina, leaving Janis and Damien in the process. Cady is trying to form an identity which is pleasing to her and others. She only ever identifies her true personality towards the end of Mean Girls which then makes Cady realise how much she has changed and how much people hate her due to the effects she has had on them. Cady’s change of personality made her appear ignorant, rude and self-absorbed.

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Along with her changing personality, Cady has different interests after all. At the beginning of the film, Cady was originally interested in Math’s, finding true friends, and spending time with family. However Cady became most interested in becoming popular, having good fashion and getting attention from this one boy in particular, Aaron Samuels. She believes that being noticed and hanging around the popular girls (The Plastics) is important. She becomes interested in hanging out with friends, going to parties and body image.