In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Kidd indirectly characterizes Lily as resilient through displaying Lily’s inner strength when dealing with hardships in her life to convey that even adolescents can be resilient in the face of adversity. For instance, Lily’s resilience is clearly depicted when the circumstances with her hair are revealed, “My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions, and T. Ray, naturally, refused to buy me bristle rollers, so all year I’d had to roll it on Welch’s grape juice cans”(3). The phrase, “...so all year I’d had to roll it on Welch’s grape juice cans,” further emphasizes the resilient personality of Lily. When Lily did not have proper tools, she resorts to what she had to get the job
