Reputation In Blue Spot Courtney Hanna's 'Best In Freshman Class'

A Bad Reputation
Reputation’s got consequences. If you have a good reputation for being nice, friendly and funny you’ll get popular, people will want to hang out with you. If you’ve got a bad reputation for being rude, people will not want to hang out with you, like for example an incident with Courtney Crimson. She didn’t even want to be seen with Hannah in the yearbook when Tyler where supposed to take a picture of her and Hannah (117). She thought that her image would get ruined if everybody in the school saw her in a picture with Hannah. In Hanna’s case her reputation of being a “slut” and having the “Best In Freshman Class” didn’t just make her lonely, it made people taking advantage of it and her. She got sexually harassed in Blue Spot

Hannah said that “everybody wants to go on a party with her” (99), so she is a very popular person with a good reputation and most of all, a party girl that everybody wanted to go to a party with. As the tapes go on Clay finds out that she isn’t that great that he thought she was. She used Hannah too, according to Hannah “polish” up her image in Hannah’s eyes (110). She took advantage of her to use her as a driver and to make Hannah see her as a good person again by inviting her to a party. During that party she didn’t just ignore and leave Hannah hanging, she spread a rumor about her that she had “a few surprises” buried in her dresser drawers (114). She spread another rumor about her that ruined Hannah’s reputation even more and made even more people taking advantage of

Like she says all these rumors contributed to a “snowball effect” that she mentions several times in the tapes. What she means by that is that these rumors, the reasons in her tapes all contributed to things building on each other, precipitated each other. Creating new rumors, creating new harassments and creating new incidents. An example of this is when she got sexually assaulted in blue spot liquor store. After Bryce grabbed her, he told the cashier “Best ass in the freshman class, Wally. Standing right here in your store!” (48). The reason why he did it was that Alex Standall wrote a list where he stated Hannah at the top of the list for having “the best ass in freshman class”. So the rumor about her having the “the best ass in freshman class” made her getting sexually harassed in blue spot liquor store. So, a snowball effect. If her reputation wasn’t so bad that her and Clay’s love maybe would become real because then he wouldn’t be so afraid to talk to her because he wouldn’t be afraid to find out something he didn’t want to or be afraid that he would get those rumors that Hannah had. The people on the tape’s reputations were mostly good like Courtney’s but when Clay listen to the tapes he realizes that they were bad people or did bad things to other people, more specifically to Hannah. You can say that just as false reputation Hannah had for being a slut, they had for doing