Character Analysis

Cady Heron is the main character in his movie. She has just moved from Africa where she had lived and been home schooled her whole life up until this point. Cady deals largely with the concept of acceptance as she tries to fit in with everyone. Throughout the movie she is the character who changes the most. Janis Ian is Cady’s first friend in high school. Janis is a very creative and artistic person. She also seems to hate the “plastics”-(the popular girls) more than anyone else. Damien and Janis are best friends. He helps Cady and Janis in their planning of breaking the plastics apart. He is referred to several times in the movie as “too gay to function.” Damien and Janis are best friends. Throughout the movie there are several references to him being very feminine and not ashamed of it. He uses the girls bathroom, and sneaks into the girls’ workshop. Regina George is the leader of “the plastics.” She is the teen princess the entire student body obsesses over. In the movie she repeatedly states that she “just wants to lose three pounds.” Karen Smith is “the dumbest girl you will ever meet.” She is a member of the plastics under Regina’s leadership. She says that her cousin is a good kisser, and believes she has special powers because her body parts can tell when it is raining. Gretchen Weiners is also a member of the plastics. Herself along with Karen follow Regina’s every command. She is Regina’s “best friend” the only one to share all of her secrets. Aaron Samuels is Regina’s on-and-off boyfriend. He plays soccer and has a math class with Cady who later develops a crush on him. In the movie he starts to like

Cady but problems arise as a result of her double life. Ms. Norbury in Cady’s math teacher. She sees the potential in Cady’s academic performance and says she will “push her” as far as it takes to get better grades.