What I saw and how I lied
Evie always wanted to be someone else, either her best friend Margie, her enemy Ruthie Kalman, or the famous Joan Crawford. So when opportunity knocks Evie is quick to open the door.so when her step father (Joe) planned a trip to Florida to get away from work and to enjoy the rest of the summer, Evie was excited, for it had been so long since their last vacation before Joe went into the war. During their stay Evie managed to reinvent herself into someone she knew in her heart she wasn’t but was instead someone she wanted to be. She wanted to be the one who girls envied, and a girl that could fill out a sweater. So when she meets a young man who seems to like her for the person she isn’t, and as time goes by the old Evie is lost and just can’t be found. The question is will Evie take her love too far and lose her identity, or will she find herself and overcome the illegal love she has?The plot may seem simple at first, a girl who falls in love with an older man and forgets about herself as well as the others around her but it has a lot more meaning than that. It’s a bit like Romeo and Juliet and the fact that Juliet’s parents don’t accept the fact that she is in love and wants to be with the love of her life Peter. And like Juliet she ignores her parents and goes behind their backs in secrecy thinking that she knows what is right for her when she’s just a young girl who doesn’t know what she really wants and what she needs.
Even though Evie’s decision seems stupid despite all the warnings her parents gave her to not go with Peter, she shows a lot of character development through the main symbol of the story, red lipstick. During the beginning you hear Evie’s complaints on how she wants to wear lipstick, and how her parents believe that she is too young and undeveloped to wear it. But toward the end she actually does wear it which shows a sign of maturity from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. So it really signifies Evie’s character growth.
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