Margo Roth Spiegelman Quotes

Margo Roth Spiegelman is the main character in the novel Paper Towns by John Green. Margo has proved herself to be extremely mysterious. Margo is like a mirror, because she is a reflection of what everyone else wants to see. She is not really herself even when she is with her closest friends and family. She is merely the person everyone makes her out to be and wants to see. Although, she is a mystery herself she also loves a good mystery. Another character in the novel even said “Margo always loved mysteries. And everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one herself.” Margo ran away on her graduation day, and left clues for her friend Q to find her, she likes to challenge people and make her life an adventure. …show more content…
When she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her, she not only vandalizes his car and property but she also targets anyone that is connected to him. She also turned her friends lives upside-down when she decided to run away. But Margo Roth Spiegelman, despite her obsessive, planning nature, is unable to see past her own anger. The way Margo left her best friend Lacey is a great example of her self-centered attitude. Margo treats Lacey like garbage for most of their friendship we see in Paper Towns. in the final chapter Margo reunites with her old friends. She sits opposite of two of Q’s friends and Lacey. Lacey and Q’s friend Ben are currently in a relationship,Margo then begins to taunt her for dating a "nerdy boy.” Lacey decided that this her last straw with