Claire Standish Character Essay

Wearing diamonds, skipping school to go shopping, and eating sushi for lunch are as commonplace in my life as they are in the life of The Breakfast Club character Claire Standish. I often find myself wishing I was on a plane to France or carrying excessive makeup in my purse just like her. She presents herself as such a relatable character for me in particular, both on and beneath her fabulous surface. Essentially, Claire appears perfectly put together, but really she is experiencing emotional turmoil at the hands of her father and her alcoholic mother, who use her as a pawn to mess with each other. Claire embodies standard pretty rich girl perfection from the 80s. Her pouty lips and incredible big hair show that she has people to impress,

Unlike John’s initial assumption that Claire is a fat person’s name, and Claire will become fat when she has some kids, I do not think Claire will ever be fat. In five years, I’d like to imagine that Claire stays true to her original posh nature, but drops her superficiality. She will take that plane to France and eat so much more sushi, but she will experience these things with John. They will teach each other things, and open up to each other, mutually improving their lives. I hope Claire teaches John some manners. In ten years, I think Claire will have her life all figured out, and instead of trying to maintain a facade of perfection, she will actually achieve a satisfying life. Her and John will be high school sweethearts, get married and she will “squeeze” out those “puppies.” Once she has kids, she will not be like her parents. She will treat them as if they are her whole world and be an incredible mother because she knows how it feels to be neglected and played with by her own parents. She would make sure that what happened to her would never happen to her kids. Claire Standish is one of the five dynamic characters in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club. She experiences a remarkable change, like her counterparts, during the saturday she spends in detention and exploring her innermost self. She finds friends, but loses her superficiality when she digs deep inside herself and realizes that everyone has problems.