She’s tall, but not too tall. Her eyes are the Sea of
Cortez, a beautiful blue. Her long, luscious, locks of hair fall perfectly
among her shoulders. There is not, nor
will there ever be a single flaw to her appearance – and people notice
that. She has every guy at the tip of
her fingers, waiting to be picked up. And sitting in that sea of eager men is a young Scott Fitzgerald. The author always centered his stories around
the “it girl” of the town, the girl who everybody wanted, due completely to her
looks. However when we get little glimpses of their personality, we see that a
pretty face doesn’t always mean a pretty person. The girls that Scott Fitzgerald wrote about
are all just a beautiful casing to a not-so-beautiful inside.
Marjorie Harvey -- from Fitzgerald’s “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”
– was the queen bee of her town. At a dance, a guy cut in on her every 30
seconds. Just speaking a single word to her instantly made you beg for more.
Marjorie knew what she had going for her. She knew that any guy out there would
do anything for her, and she wasn’t afraid to use that for her benefit. The
outer layer of Marjorie is a perfect painting, one only an artist could create,
but inside, something must have gone wrong. Marjorie is that manipulative girl. If she
doesn’t like you, she will find a way to build you up, then break you
down. In the story “ Bernice Bobs Her
Hair” she takes it upon herself to get her cousin to become as cool, if not
cooler than herself, then completely ruin everything and once again reclaim the
position of top dog. Marjorie Harvey may
been the talk of the town for her perfect looks, but in reality, she is so much
more than beauty, in a bad way. Being attractive to people’s eyes is different
than being attractive to their hearts.
The story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” isn’t the only Fitzgerald
story that has the infamous perfect girl. The story that initially sparked up
“The Great Gatsby”, “Winter Dreams” also
has a top notch beauty: Judy Jones. Judy
has that porcelain doll face on the outside, but that devil mask on the inside.
We are first introduced to Judy Jones when she was about 11 years old, and she
already walked around like she was the best person around town. She knew her
position, even then, and knew that because she was pretty, she could – and
would – get anything she wants. As the
story continues, Judy grows up and supposedly stays as beautiful as she was as
a child. However, she always had this dark side to her. Judy had an overwhelming
amount of confidence. After leaving someone she loved, for a long time, when
she returned she stated that he still loved her because who couldn’t love her. Judy
Jones seemed like a lovable, sweet girl on the outside, but on the inside was
one who had immense amounts of confidence.
These stories of the two faced girls are still going on
today. In 2004, a major motion picture, Mean Girls, was released. It tells the
story of the perfect princess, Regina George. Everybody wants to either be with
her, or be her. On the inside, though, she is a perfect mixture of Marjorie and
Judy. Regina had the confidence of a major league sports player, the face an
angel, the hair of a mermaid, but the thoughts and actions of a demon. Regina
had no care about how she treated people, as long as she was treated right. Though
Fitzgerald wrote his stories over 30 years ago, the same situation is happening
everywhere in the world right now. These pretty girls hide their personality, a
evil dark one.
Those beautiful blue eyes are a trap. That perfect hair is
used only to reel you in. Her face, though it seems so perfect, hides a demon.
These pretty girls that Fitzgerald writes about, that are made into movie
starts, the ones that are in our school, all have a hidden dark side. I’m not saying that every girl out there who
has beauty on the outside isn’t beautiful inside, and I’m not saying that it’s
impossible to be nice and pretty; I’m just saying that more times than not, the
beautiful outside is just a casing to a dark, evil inside.
