Rachel prides herself on not being the typical and not being like anyone else. As she sits in the living room watching a game show, covered in popcorn kernels, and drinking soda her mother enters and watches her from afar. Something is just not clicking. Rachel is smart, very talented and in her mother’s, mind should represent herself a little bit classier as a “lady.” Rachel normally dresses the way she feels comfortable in t-shirt and sweatpants, she's messy and doesn't clean her room and her mother, who loves her, wants more for her. She wants her to be the presentation of what could potentially later in life be a Stepford Wife. Rachel wants none of it. She wants to be who she is, interesting how individualism presents itself in many different ways. Rachel finds herself at odds with her mother who then hands her a pamphlet for Charm School. She is whisked away to a place that she immediately hates. Everyone wears a uniform, the girls look the same, talk the same, and the woman in charge is everything that Rachel is not. But through her time and experiences there she realizes that who everyone wants her to be is not who she truly is. But it is when she makes a friend at the school named Nicolette that she starts to see both sides of this coin. Change is not always good for everyone, but it is good for some people and if we want to be accepted, we also have to open our minds to accepting those that find comfort in change, even if it is in a Charm School. As she reflects on all of the negative things that have been said about her, she realizes that the Rachel she wants to be is perfectly fine just the way she is.
