Symbols and Tropes
Cady's Wardrobe
While everybody's clothes in Mean Girls symbolize their social status, Cady's document her descent into Plastic-hood. She starts out in jean, tees, and flannels; she looks a typical high school stu...
Students as Animals
Mean Girls drops three fantasy sequences on us, each one straight from Cady's head. One involves a trio of potential "junior Plastics" getting leveled by a school bus. In the other two, Cady pictur...
The Plastics' Rules
Being Plastic is hard work. There are a lot of rules you have to follow if you want access to their lunch table. Check out this incomplete list:You can't wear a tank top two days in a row.You can o...
The Fertility Vase of the Ndebele Tribe
When is a fertility vase of the Ndebele tribe not just a fertility vase of the Ndebele tribe? When it represents Cady before North Shore sunk its claws into her. The vase symbolizes her old, uncorr...
The Spring Fling Queen Tiara
Pop quiz: who's the last person you saw wearing a crown? Maybe you watched The Princess Diaries for the 53rd time on cable the other day. Maybe it was Queen Elizabeth II. Crowns and tiaras symboliz...