In Sue Monk Kidd’s, The Secret Life of Bees, the author indirectly characterizes Lily Owens as insecure to display her longing to fit in. For example, this insecurity can be seen when Lily looks at the picture of her deceased mother, Deborah. “I laid the photograph beside my eighth-grade picture and examined every possible similarity. She was more or less missing a chin, too, but even so, she was above-average pretty, which offered me some genuine hope for my future” (Kidd 13). Furthermore, Lily fears she lacks all the aspects of being beautiful and is insecure about this. For this reason, she tries to find every possible similarity between herself and her mother, the mother of which she believes she killed. Lily is somewhat relieved when she
