Paper Towns Spiegelman Character Analysis
Paper Towns is a novel about imagining people complexly. For much of Quentin's childhood and adolescence, he has admired Margo from afar. A one-dimensional, skewed version of her true character. In doing so, Margo ceases to be Margo. She becomes a product of Quentin's imagination, a mirage of the real thing. Quentin later realizes the treacherous nature of this, and he is able to see Margo as her true self: an uncertain, lost girl. Everyone, he finds, sees a slightly different side of Margo, though none truly depict her actual self. He imagines each of Margo's different "reflections" as if looking into a funhouse mirror: a reflection for her parents, for Quentin, for her friends, and so on. Margo Roth Spiegelman is the girl who loved mysteries so much that she became one, and while in school, she seems intent to be the manic pixie dream girliest of them all. She runs away from home occasionally to allegedly learn to play guitar in Mississippi, or spend three days traveling with the circus because they thought she had potential on the trapeze. Margo is often cool and aloof. She never acted as if she liked anyone all that much, and she refers
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She is not a villainess but she is at the center of the conflict. The protagonist, Quentin, is smitten with her and has been since childhood when Margo was his best friend. Margo is the “it” girl in school: she is beautiful, popular, and is part of the in crowd. But, there is a mysterious side to her that she conceals. She likes folk music and poetry which she does not reveal because that would tarnish her image. Instead, she runs away on occasion to fulfill her adventurous side, a trait that is well known to her friends. Margo blames others for their misguided perception of her personality until she finally runs away and does not want to be found; she longs to find a place to call her own where she can allow her true personality to
She is not a villainess but she is at the center of the conflict. The protagonist, Quentin, is smitten with her and has been since childhood when Margo was his best friend. Margo is the “it” girl in school: she is beautiful, popular, and is part of the in crowd. But, there is a mysterious side to her that she conceals. She likes folk music and poetry which she does not reveal because that would tarnish her image. Instead, she runs away on occasion to fulfill her adventurous side, a trait that is well known to her friends. Margo blames others for their misguided perception of her personality until she finally runs away and does not want to be found; she longs to find a place to call her own where she can allow her true personality to