![]() We will sell our bracelets by the roadsides, you will play golf, and enjoy hot hors d’oeuvres. Your people will wear cardigans and drink highballs. In an epic scene in Addams Family Values, Wednesday rebels against the conformity and desensitised handling of Thanksgiving (pilgrims ‘inviting’ native Americans to share a meal) in the summer camp by saying, “Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Of course Wednesday isn’t a perfect human being, but we live in times when teenagers are more compelling, astute and empathetic human beings than adults, and Wednesday Addams’ owning of herself fits right in. In a world where we live in the determined grid of Instagram, it’s equally easy to lose our identity as it is to assert your individuality. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, it’s equally cathartic to identify with Blossom’s goofy take on life, and Buffy’s loyalty towards her oddball friends, but Wednesday is different. She is self-aware, confident and intelligent-a complete contrast to the ’90s fictional female characters we would eventually grow up with. She is so secure in her kooky skin that it only feels like she’s at odds with everyone else, though she isn’t really. Here is a little girl, yes a little mournful, who is more irreverent than rebellious. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
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