Evaluate Karen and how her personality influences her to cheat on Greg.
Karen has low self esteem which causes her to do close to anything to make her feel better about herself, including cheating. Karen is a Beta Pi sorority girl at ULA who is easily swayed by peer pressure. She does whatever her mom and boyfriend want her to do, including writing Greg's school papers. Once, her mother told her she had a big nose, so she got a nose job. In the end, Karen wants so badly to fit in that she will go as far as it takes to get approval from her peers."I'm not pretty, but give me a half hour with 60 percent of the guy population and I can somehow get him to name that tune." (Welch 15) This quote shows how low her self confidence is, but how much she cares about what boys think of her. Karen swears she will marry Greg, but then cheats on him. She likes the idea of having a boyfriend, but more importantly, she loves the satisfaction she gets from boys attention. Karens personality influences her to cheat on Greg because she needs more than just a solid boyfriend, she needs approval from a lot of boys to feel that she is special.