Molly Bolt Character Analysis

Molly Bolt is known to do exactly what her name implies: Bolt. She travels from location to location seeking acceptance and companionship. She travels from her home in Pennsylvania to Fort Lauderdale, the University of Florida, and New York. She finds trouble and creates issues in every place she goes. Although Molly has a lot of setbacks, she never lets that define her. She gets up, keeps moving, and eventually falls into her next batch of trouble. Her pursuit almost always fails and she is left on the outside by her lack of legitimate family, sexuality, and interest in pursuing the film industry. Molly is known to do a lot of activities to please herself but Molly is just looking for social inclusion. She wants to be accepted by the people she accepts.
Molly finds out that she is a bastard at a very young age. It changes Molly’s perception of herself. Her mother doesn’t show love for her, and often yells at her for acting unladylike. Molly just moves along with her life exclaiming “so what. So what I’m a bastard. I don’t care.” (9). Although Molly doesn’t seem to care, it deeply affects her. She has a minor mental breakdown and …show more content…
She doesn’t save anyone, she can hardly even save herself. She doesn’t fall in love with prince charming and stick to that one man. Instead Molly gets herself in trouble, she has sexual encounters with everyone including both men and women, and she moves from place to place never settling down. Molly may not be a typical heroine but she is still a heroine. Many lessons can be taken away from Molly. Young girls can learn that your background, sexuality, or ambitions don’t define your success. They can also learn from Molly about accepting yourself, Molly never denies that she is a lesbian and drops friends when they don’t accept her. She maybe hurt by their actions but she doesn’t let that stop her. She keeps moving from place to place, never deeply affected by being unaccepted by