The Sweet Revenge Of Celia Door Analysis

In the book of “The Sweet revenge of Celia Door”, Celia Door is presented as an incoming freshman with interesting motive of revenge towards a person who she she holds an immense hatred against but the new experiences of high school confuses her to choose between friendship and revenge. In the book, Karen presents Celia Door with many struggles and some common conflicts of a typical student who goes through high school life throughout the book. In the book, a conflict that is introduced in the beginning of the book is the description about Girl vs individual and society. For example, as Celia reveals her reasons of why she has changed her personality and appearance, she names only one person responsible for it who is Sandy Firestone. As …show more content…
Gender portrayal is the most prevalent issue throughout the book.FinneFrock shows the character of Sandy Firestone and her followers giving the importance to material things and appearances and how they obsess over body image, counting calories, and their bodily imperfections. One of the crucial and controversial topics that still exists today that book addressed was different types of genders among people. For example, an argument took place in Celia’s english class between her and Sandy told Celia how she’s so negative when she made a comment on book set during Great Depression. Celia replied angrily towards that comment by saying why doesn’t she try to take her into a darkroom and see what develops? To which the response comes as “Ewww,Celia is a lesbian”(FinneyFrock …show more content…
Celia is rejected by her peers as she is falsely perceived/accused as a lesbian. Another example is when as chapters are continued Drake decides to come out to Celia about how he’s into guys but does not want to reveal it yet as the first people he wants to let know are his parents and Japhy (boy he likes who lives in New York).It indicates how guys and girls have a difficult time revealing the truth about their genders as it goes against the society’s expectations and beliefs of a female and male.The people who are unaware of the Drake’s truth in the beginning saw him a newly moved boy from New York who is a handsome young and is athletic like most jocks are. Celia describes his actions when he’s talking how he was “blushing and braiding his fingers together” which is most of times of how girls portray themselves or is a expected behavior when talking about a crush or a boy they are attracted to (FinneyFrock 39). The usages of the words “lesbian” and “gay” are used as insults towards people instead of using it with respect for the purpose of indicating a gender. Categorizing males and females into social roles creates a problem, because individuals feel as they have to be at one end of a linear spectrum and must identify themselves as man or