“Would You Rather” shows that young girls, especially the one who insists on playing the game, struggle with the more difficult decisions that have to be made and look to others for possible answers. It is possible that the girl asking these questions is in some deep corner of her sub-consciousness running a simulation of these various scenarios in an effort to prepare herself should they come to fruition.
However, it is very apparent that the girl being asked these questions does not want to concern herself with these difficult circumstances, especially because these circumstances are imaginary. She would prefer to not choose between “living with my mother or my father”. Saying, “I want different questions. I hate these choices. I hate my life.”
“Are you crying?” “Yes”.
Both of these girls struggle with decision making when there are no clear good choices to be made. They both also have their own way of dealing with this stress. The first girl asks her friends for input in the form of this game, hoping to feel more comfortable should the day come when she may be facing these situations in reality rather than part of a game. The second girl prefers not to think about such terrible things. She is innocent and does not want to deal with hypotheticals that she quite possibly may never have to face in her life.
The first girl will have the benefit of going into life with some context of the problems she undoubtedly will encounter and perhaps a clue as to which she will decide when presented with them. Unfortunately, all of this comes at the cost of losing the joy of innocence at a younger age. The second will go on with her youth bumbling around on the roads of bliss. However, she may be overwhelmed one day when she will have to make choices where the good option is not so obvious, or absent completely.
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