![]() ![]() Teenagers all over the world look at themselves in the mirror everyday and are embarrassed by a pimple or messy hair, but some are embarrassed by everything they see. Also, the end of the novel asserts that Lia goes to therapy, which will most likely elicit a desire for the audience to get the help they need as well. Lia was created to help teenage readers who are struggling with depression feel as though they are not alone( Lewis). Lia and her friend Cassie used to have competitions to see who can go the longest without eating, and she was proud to be the “ thinnest girl in the room, hands down’ (78). Lia purposely starves herself because she overestimates the importance of one’s body image while they are a teenager. Physically, Lia is cold as well, due to her lack of body fat. She is neither living nor dead rather she is a “wintergirl”(196). Anderson uses winter as a symbol throughout the story for the perpetual state of frozenness Lia is in. The young adult novel “Wintergirls”, by Laurie Halse Anderson, portrays the tyrannical world of the depressed teenager Lia Overbrook, who is an anorexic cutter who loathes her body, her family, and her life. ![]()
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