The document provides an analysis of the opening scenes of the movie Mean Girls. It summarizes that Cady Heron is introduced as the main character through a description of her overly protective parents dropping her off for her first day of high school at age 16. It then shows Cady's modest family home in comparison to the huge mansion of one of the mean girls to imply you need wealth to be popular. Cady breaks the fourth wall to convey her future power and dominance. She narrates her sad life being homeschooled and her concern that other students will see her as a "freak". The scene then cuts to a girl dressed stereotypically nerdy, implying this is what Cady feared being seen as due