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In the story “Golden Girl” by Gillian Chan, the main character Donna is only best friends with Anna for the popularity status. Instead of sticking up for herself, Donna allows herself to be pushed around by Anna which makes her appear to be the innocent protagonist, but when she allows jealousy to hurt her friendship (even one created under false pretences) she instead becomes the antagonist. Donna has a low self-esteem which makes her spiteful and jealous of Anna. Donna’s low self-esteem is shown early on when the second sentence in the entire story is “Without Anna I’d have been nobody” (78). Their “friendship” only exists so that Anna can have a minion and Donna can be popular, benefiting neither girl because neither gets a real friend.

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