In We Were Liars By E. Lockhart The main character, Cadence is a poor little rich girl. Whose mother wants them all to be perfect family. One quote that supports the reason that I feel this way is, “ Mummy snapped. She said to get a hold of myself. Be normal, now, she said. Right now, she said”(Lockhart 5). During this quote, her dad has just left her. Cadence described this as her father pulling out a handgun and shooting her in the chest. She described this with such detail that when I first read this I thought that he had actually shot her. Almost instantly Cadence’s mother told her to get up and recover right away. I feel like her mom told her to do this because she does not want her family to be known as failures or week people. Cadence,