What is Laurel’s opinion of Arnetta? Does it change in the course of thestory?
What will be an ideal response?
- Although Laurel never directly states her view of Arnetta, she clearly views this group leader with a mixture of fear and suspicion. There is significant tension, and perhaps dislike, between these two young girls. Arnetta controls her Brownie troop by saying vulgar words and intimidating everyone around her; she is a bully who wants to fight. She decides to teach Troop 909 a lesson and runs the “secret meeting.” It is Arnetta who “said she’d heard one of the Troop 909 girls call Daphne a nigger” (par. 15), and it is Arnetta who says they smell like “wet Chihuahuas” (par. 3). Ironically, only the consummately hypocritical Arnetta has memorized Mrs. Margolin’s religious aphorisms (par. 6). Laurel notices that “Arnetta always [gave Mrs. Margolin] what she wanted to hear” (par. 7), a method she uses to deflect attention from her decidedly un-Christian attitude, which is full of revenge, envy, and prejudice.
Early in the story, Laurel highlights a seemingly insignificant moment from a past Brownie meeting that reveals a few characteristics of Arnetta. Laurel says that “once, Arnetta killed the troop goldfish by feeding it a French fry covered in ketchup” and justified this action to Mrs. Margolin by claiming that “the goldfish had been eyeing her meal for hours, [so] then the fish—giving in to temptation—had leapt up and snatched a whole golden fry from her fingertips” (par. 7). Arnetta easily creates a ridiculous story—that the gullible Mrs. Margolin believes—to shift the blame away from herself. This foreshadows Arnetta’s actions with Troop 909 at camp.
It is clear that Laurel struggles with Arnetta because during the “secret meeting,” Arnetta turns to Laurel and asks, “Snot, you’re not going to be a bitch and tell Mrs. Margolin, are you?” (par. 34). For Arnetta to ask such a question, there must have been a time in the past when Laurel did tell on Arnetta, and the grudge remains. But Laurel is right to question Arnetta as the entire fight was based on a false accusation. When Arnetta twice accuses two innocent girls (one of whom does not even speak), she tries to do what she did before with the goldfish: put the blame elsewhere to get herself out of trouble.
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