Regina had started an ugly rumor about her. Janis comes up with this plan for Cady to pretend to like them and get along and then report everything back to Janis that they say. Janis wants revenge. The more that Cady hangs out with Regina, Gretchen, and Karen the more she starts acting like them. Cady tends to act more like Regina than any of the others. She starts turning the girls away from Regina. She finds ways to make it seem like Regina is mad at Gretchen so that Gretchen will tell Cady Regina’s deepest darkest secrets, and once Cady hears the one that will ruin Regina she uses it. The secret is that Regina cheats on Aaron her boyfriend. Cady likes Aaron so she would try anything to get them to breakup. Even though they broke up Aaron still didn’t ask Cady out. She even tried manipulating him and it didn’t …show more content…
However the one thing that they all have in common is that they all wanted to fit in and be liked by everyone. They wanted to be the most popular girls in the whole school. There was trust vs. mistrust, and identity vs. role confusion from Erikson’s psychosocial theory. (Sigelman chapter 2 page 37.) If everyone would have gotten along or at least attempted to then friendships could have been stronger and you probably could actually trust the person that you were friends with. However to make the movie an interesting one, they had to do it this way. Cady’s parents were really sure how things in public schools were suppose to be so it was hard to know what was right and wrong. However I feel that as a parent we know what is right and wrong for our children even if it is something that we didn’t personally go through