In Rosalind Wiseman’s essay “Queen Bee and Her Court”, she specified various roles played in social cliques. In the essay, she states “cliques are sophisticated, complex, and multilayered, and every girl has a role within them.” This demonstrates that although it may seem cliques are very simple, they are actually very conglomerate. In social cliques there are positive and negative roles that a person can have. The sidekick is a negative role; whereas, the floater is a positive role. There are also roles that can be negative or positive, depending on how someone portrays them, such as the banker. In my opinion, the queen bee’s sidekick is a negative role to play in a social clique. Although most girls find this to be the best role to play,
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Gossip is very essential for girls in school. For example, Rosalind states “Information about each other is currency in Girl World.” In other words, girls thrive to get the ultimate gossip in school. Girls desire to be the person that knows everything happening in the school. If a girl has the information, people will want to communicate with that girl to find out what they do not already know. Correspondingly, the banker is the girl that knows it all. This is a positive role to play because in order to be the banker you must be extremely smart. The banker is always one step ahead. The banker has an immense amount of power over others because of their ability to retrieve information about everyone. On the other hand, the banker is a negative role to play as well. The banker can be a negative role because she is usually the girl that starts a vast amount of the drama. The banker starts most of the drama, but she does is so clandestinely that no one discovers she was the person behind the madness. The banker is also negative because she loses the trust of many friends. Although she loses their trust, they do not eliminate her from the group because she has all the information. Fraudulent friends is all that the banker is left
Gossip is very essential for girls in school. For example, Rosalind states “Information about each other is currency in Girl World.” In other words, girls thrive to get the ultimate gossip in school. Girls desire to be the person that knows everything happening in the school. If a girl has the information, people will want to communicate with that girl to find out what they do not already know. Correspondingly, the banker is the girl that knows it all. This is a positive role to play because in order to be the banker you must be extremely smart. The banker is always one step ahead. The banker has an immense amount of power over others because of their ability to retrieve information about everyone. On the other hand, the banker is a negative role to play as well. The banker can be a negative role because she is usually the girl that starts a vast amount of the drama. The banker starts most of the drama, but she does is so clandestinely that no one discovers she was the person behind the madness. The banker is also negative because she loses the trust of many friends. Although she loses their trust, they do not eliminate her from the group because she has all the information. Fraudulent friends is all that the banker is left