If we were in the movies, he'd be that boy. The perfect smile that warms your heart like the morning sun, that smile that makes your heart palpitations irregular and all you feel are butterflies in your stomach, weak in the knees... That's what I feel every time I talk to him, the perfect boy I love so much... He is my light in the darkest of days and right now the only thing keeping me sane, as the world twists and turns at my feet, he holds on tighter... although sometimes I wonder if I should let go and spare him from me... just a thought...

i think it is something on the plot

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.