Coming of age occurs in the short story “Celia Behind Me” because Isabel Huggan describes Elizabeth, when she transmogrifies the way she looks at Celia, as a transition in Elizabeth’s life. Elizabeth silently endures to the fact that Celia follows her around. Then, something in Elizabeth’s mind triggers the inner evil to come out of her and she looses it at Celia. “I was so filled with horror that I couldn’t even cry. I just sat on the toilet seat, reading all the things that were written in pencil on the green, wooden walls…Thinking that I might die myself, die right here, and then it wouldn’t matter if they told on me that I had killed Celia” (Huggan 81). Elizabeth realizing that she had an evil inside her and that if she had died, right
