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In this chapter, Karen comes close to abandoning her schemes against Penny before they've even begun. A [[Flash Back]] to eighteen months previous shows the passive, pre-makeover Karen ignoring a classmate throwing fake dog-doo at her, then returning home to her then diametric opposite, her aggressive businessperson mother. In the present (August before her junior year), she invites Marshall over when she has the house to herself. A second flashback, to the previous summer when Aggie was giving her makeover tips, sees Karen misinterpret Aggie's then-disinterest in boys as an interest in girls. As a result, back in the present, Karen assures Marshall that she's not jealous of her jogging with him. (She also assumes Lisa, with whom Aggie's spending the summer on a house-building mission, is her girlfriend.)
As they engage in petting, Marshall tells Karen he's finally ready to make love to her. When she reminds him of his earlier claim that they're too young, he says he doesn't feel like a kid when he's with her, because she's helped him grow as a person and open up to people like Aggie and Nick. At this, Karen has an attack of conscience and tearfully tells Marshall she doesn't deserve him, because she's a bully. However, when in doing so she alludes to Penny, the well-meaning but poor-listener Marshall claims that it's ''Penny'' who's the bully, recalling how, at Karen's last [[Penny and Aggie/Recap/Celebrity Poker Showdown
Marshall adds that if throwing "better parties" than Penny will help with that, he'll support her. He is, of course, unaware that Karen and her clique have other plans for Penny and her friends. Karen, however, feeling absolved, assures herself that he needn't know about such plans right now, that it can wait until after graduation. As she thinks this, there appears a metaphorical image of her conscience flying away.
=== Tropes ===
* [[Call Back]]: To [http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=45 this strip] from [[Penny and Aggie/Recap/The Mockingbird
* [[Flash Back]]
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: The chapter shows numerous contributing factors to Karen's bitter vengefulness unleashed following her makeover: her being the victim of bullying, her "cutthroat businesswoman" mother, and her high-achieving siblings (seen in photographs). However, her attack of conscience shows that she's aware none of this means she ''must'' act the way she does. Even so, she chooses to dismiss that realization and forge ahead with her schemes.
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