Koren Zailckas
Koren Zailckas' is a very complex person, with many different personality traits. However, her most important personality trait, the one that gives her a story worth telling, is her dependence. You can tell this because she says that on page seventeen that "seventeen ounces of Southern Comfort is all it takes for me to make new friends." She also goes on to state countless times that all the friends she had shes made through drinking. This shows that hes dependent on her alcohol. On page fifty she also states "I feel like I've found a religion" after getting drunk for the first time. She relied on her drunken state for her happiness to the point that she calls it a religion. This dependence creates relationships with others, but none that are healthy. This dependence also lands her in the hospital for alcohol poisoning, and gets her into many sketchy situations that she doesn't fully remember what went on. Not to mention that kind of long term damage done to her liver and kidneys. The alcohol dependency caused her to let down; her parents, her cheer team, her sorority, and eventually herself. Koren Zailckas' main personality trait in this book was her dependence, and readers should realize the damage that this personality trait caused her, and how that damage could be prevented.