George achieves a measure of peace when she takes the job of stagehand to Charlotte, who is to be played by her friend Kelly. As a result, a devastated George refuses all of the play’s masculine parts and ends up in the crew. Udell definitely doesn’t understand: When George auditions for the play, the teacher views George’s delivery of Charlotte’s lines as a joke (70). While her best friend Kelly is supportive, she does not understand that George wants the part not merely for the chance to pretend to be a girl on stage but to instead show the world who she really is. George’s main motivation at the outset is to get the part of Charlotte in the school play version of Charlotte’s Web. Udell, tries to reassure her that her tears at the end of Charlotte’s Web will make her into “a fine young man” in the future (15) and gives her a pass to the boys’ bathroom. Hiding who she really is hurts George deeply, and having the world think she is a boy is frustrating. The novel opens with George sneaking into the bathroom to look at her secret stash of girls’ magazines, concealing them again before her mother and brother return home.
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