“They are my friends…supposedly”.
“Let Me In” is the story of a young girl who is trying her best to fit in with the popular girls at school, Often at the expense of her mother who is struggling to make ends meet while working as a secretary. She threw a tantrum in the shoe store so that her mother would buy her those shoes, which she did not even truly want, only to go to school and find that her new shoes and style had already gone the way of the dodo bird.
This young girl is an unfortunate example of how societal perceptions of what a girl should be proves to be an extraordinary burden on the youth of our nation and beyond as well as causing emotional harm and promoting cruelty. The popular girls bully those who are not the same as them and are especially cruel to a girl named Wendy who has done something beyond the posse’s cognitive abilities, choosing to be unpopular by leaving the posse and rejecting their cruelty and way of life.
Wendy dares to be different, which is precisely why the posse loathes her. She is a danger to their way and other people need to see what happens to those who go against the posse, which represents society’s seemingly perfect mold for girls.
The girl in this story really likes Wendy however; she still wants to be liked by the popular crowd and rejects Wendy after being scolded by her popular “friends”. All of her attempts to gain favor appear to end up being for naught when she is denied a seat at lunch with the posse. She has what seems to be a panic attack and faints only to wake up at Wendy’s house.
“She says that she will be my friend if I can stop worrying about being popular”. Wendy represents the remedy to the plague society has cast upon young girls everywhere. If only little girls didn’t have to worry about being accepted they wouldn’t pretend to be someone that they are not and would accept themselves. Then they would finally be able to enjoy their lives rather than throwing tantrums in shoe stores.
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