Wintergirls in Haunt

Wintergirls
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      Yesterday, I've picked up the book "Wintergirls", by Laurie Halse Anderson, to read because it seems interesting. The story revolves around Lia, who suffers from eating disorders. After knowing that her ex-best friend, Cassie, was found dead in a motel room by herself, she starts to fear the world. That is because Cassie has given her 33 phone calls the night she had died, but Lia purposely ignored them. This makes me think that Cassie is the antagonist because her death pressures her to assume that it was her fault she had commit suicide.
      To begin, Lia is "chased after" by Cassie because she keeps on remembering the times they have spent together having fun, and then it ends with the reminder of the 33 missed calls. She feels guilty over the fact that she could have saved her, if she had only picked up the phone. Cassie is like the antagonist that is preventing her from advancing in her journey. She struggles to maintain a normal life, and her obsession with her weight definitely did not do much to help either. Also, she said. "The body of Cassandra Jane Parrish is asleep in a cold silver box. They'll dig a hole in the ground and plant her on Saturday. What about the rest of her, the real Cassie? I think she's coming here." She feels haunted by her, even in her dreams. Everywhere she goes, she senses Cassie following her, revenging her for not picking up the calls, for not caring about her anymore. She feels ashamed because of her death, even though I feel that it is partially not necessarily her fault. She was not the one who had killed her, right?
      Because of the antagonist, it makes me feel that instead of thinking about what she could have done to prevent her death, she should think about what she should do now. She's wasting her time scaring herself when she could have something nicer to Cassie. She has low self-esteem which is why she chose to cut herself in order to lose weight. It's not like she could rewrite the past to change the future anyways, and so that's why I think that she should stop feeling guilty for what she have done. Sure, it's hard not to feel responsible for her death because she could have done something to avoid the tragedies, but it's too late to blame now. Time won't stop to help you regain yourself. The number 33 keeps on appearing in her mind because she feels guilty of crime for Cassie's death. This is why I can tell that she is the antagonist who is opposing the main character in the story.
      Therefore, I believe that Cassie is like Lia's enemy because her nonexistent slows her down from having a healthy lifestyle. It makes me think that another reason why she chooses to cut herself is because she is trying to punish herself. When Cassie was still alive, they often compete to be the skinniest. She is pretending not to feel haunted even though she is. In conclusion, I can tell that Cassie is the antagonist because she gives a negative impact to Lia in the story.