Melinda puts her mirror in the closet. I think she did this because she is insecure about her looks and she doesn't want to keep looking at herself in the mirror. I imagine this action emphasizes the quote, “don't judge a book by it’s cover” since everyone is labelling Melinda as the creepy girl, who called the cops at someone's party. But no one really knows what happened to her;not even her best friend. Mirrors only show you your outside, not the inside. I think the author used a mirror to represent the people that only care about what you look like, how you dress and not the things that really count.
