'Fragile Fairy Tale In We Were Liars'

Fragile Fairy Tales “We are Sinclairs. No one is needy. No one is wrong.” These three lies mark the start of many more lies to come in E. Lockhart’s 2013 novel We Were Liars, which mystery-driven readers will love. The Sinclairs are a proud and headstrong family that lives on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts in the summer. Every summer is filled with cocktail hours, tennis matches, and strolls down the beach in their wealthy dream-like life. But what goes on behind the curtains of this envious family is much more tangible and heartbreakingly helpless that readers will immerse themselves inside of the clever twists of plot.
The protagonist, Cadence is the eldest grandchild in the Sinclair family who gives us a view into the family. Harris Sinclair, the grandfather of Cadence owns the island and the four mansions, which he portioned and gave out to his daughters. All Sinclairs have strong square chins, servants, and more money than they need. The three older grandchildren are Cadence, Johnny, and Mirren. During summer eight, Gat came along.
Like Gottschall said, “fiction seems to teach us to see the world through rose-colored lenses.” (3), by growing up with lots of fictional happy endings, we expect all fairy tales to end in a “good for everyone” way but in real life, there are no happy endings. There are no happy endings because there is no ending. All stories are somehow interconnected and continued after the supposed end. However, if kids watched dark, realistic fairy tales from the start, our entire society would look different. Ceridwen Dovey wrote in his article that “the ability to guess...what another human being might be thinking or feeling…[starts] to develop around the age of four”(3). So unemotional children would eventually turn into passive adults, leading to a cold