Gender Stereotypes In Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars is the story of four teen girls—Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily— whose world is turned upside down when their ringleader Alison goes missing. The book begins a year after Alison’s disappearance. Aria has been abroad for a year with her family, and the other three girls have drifted apart. When Aria returns from Iceland, Alison’s body is finally found, and the four girls start receiving creepy and threatening text messages from an untraceable number. The texts are signed “A.” A’s texts indicate she knows everything about the girls, which is dangerous because each of the girls has a secret she doesn’t want to expose.
The liars also have a collective secret: They were involved in an accident that left one of their peers