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Veronica Mars is a female teenage Private Investigator helping her father run his business, and is presented as a loner at the beginning of the series. Giving a personal perspective on the people that surround her on daily basis and how they treat her and others around the setting of the high school. Veronica Mars is a hard-boil detective that does not follow how hard-boil detectives are perceived. We have an understanding that a hard-boil detective is an adult white male loner, who is sarcastic and an alcoholic. Throughout the story being told, the women are perceived to be the ones causing corruption, sexually and emotionally. However, Veronica breaks the traditional hard-boil detective, by being a female, a teenager, staying away from alcohol and drugs, and the corruption is not from the women but the men. Especially Aaron Echolls, throughout the first season the main source of corruption. He was portrayed as a family man to the public eye, but behind the camera the action star was a pedophile, murderer, alcoholic and a terrible father. Aaron would have sex with any female that would …show more content…
Lilly was Veronica Mars’s best friend and Logan Echolls on and off again girlfriend and the four of them were known as the fab four. Lilly was known to be on the wild side and caused corruption in the lives of the lovers she would have on the side. She was never listened to her mother and did everything in her power to make her mother mad. Her death affected every character differently, Duncan was so upset he went into epileptic shock, shrinking into a shell. Logan is portrayed as angry at the world blaming himself, Veronica especially and even Lilly for her death. Veronica was not only upset by her best friend’s death, but her mother abandoned her and her father after Lilly’s death and she was shunned from her friend group and she was

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