Annie, Laurie’s sarcastic friend, will be Michael’s first victim that night. Annie’s lack of traditional feminine reticence toward sex is suggested throughout her brief appearance in the film. Annie encourages Laurie to transgress traditional feminine virtues by asking Ben Traymer to an upcoming dance. In addition, she spends much of her on-screen time dressed only in a man’s white dress shirt and white cotton underpants, suggesting both her presumption of male dress and her own developing female sexuality. Most explicitly, she tells her boyfriend, Paul, that they should stop talking about sex and “get down to doing it.” Annie, in contrast to Laurie as the representative of the Final Girl, shows no reservations in adopting the masculine prerogative of exploring and initiating sexual intimacy” (Connelly, …show more content…
If she would have focused on the child, or gone across the street and co-babysat with her friend, she would have likely made it to the end of the film as well. In many horror films it is tradition for “the virgin to live” this is because they are much more likely to think things through and not jump into a bad situation as quick this is because they are much more likely to think things through and not jump into a bad situation as quickly as someone who is more sexually experienced. Although someone who is sexually active can have strong maternal instincts, this is not something we regularly see in film, especially in the case of woman since being sexually active as a woman is meant to be looked at as a