The major struggle that all of these five characters go through is the inside conflict to be perfect in the eyes of peers and parents. In this attempt, they took some extreme measures in order to achieve the social, athletic or academic perfection. After a while, when they open up to each other, there was one thing common in all of them and that was that none of them was enjoying satisfied family life and all of them were too scared to become like their parents. All of these characters had immense pressure from their parents to be perfect that even Brian tried to commit suicide because he achieved average grade points. Cliare “The Princes” feels that her life is like a toy between her mother and father, she is also represented as insecure virgin and her mother is an alcoholic, but she tries not to open her life issues in front of others and like to stay popular in her social group and school. The jock on the other hand plays a punk band and his struggle was to prove himself strong because his …show more content…
He was also manipulated by his coach and his father in high school. Allison “The Basket Case” is a nymphomaniac who is ignored by her family and peers and the most