In the passage from White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer, Catherine Jane is depicted as a stubborn and manipulative teenager who is also intelligent and sympathetic. Catherine Jane is displayed in the passage as a very manipulative teenager. On a trip to go swimming, Catherine, wanting to comb up her hair like adult, asks her mother to bob her hair. Her mother, shocked by the idea, gives her permission to comb up her hair, but not bob it. Rose Lee, a hired servant working for Catherine’s mother, then narrates, “I saw Catherine Jane’s pouty expression melt into a sweet smile, and when her parents weren’t looking she winked at me” (130). This reveals that Catherine’s true intentions in asking her mother to bob her hair was to make combing up her hair
