In this passage, Millicent feels torn between wanting to fit in with the popular girls in the sorority and her growing sense of individuality, which leads her to consider standing up for herself and making a different choice at the initiation.
Then the girls had led her here, blindfolded still, through
the corridors of Betsy Johnson's house and shut her in
the cellar. It would be an hour before they came to get
her, but then Rat Court would be all over and she would
say what she had to say and go home.
For tonight was the grand finale, the trial by fire. There
really was no doubt now that she would get in. She could
not think of anyone who had ever been invited into the
high school sorority and failed to get through initiation
time. But even so, her case would be quite different. She
would see to that. She could not exactly say what had
decided her revolt, but it definitely had something to do
with Tracy and something to do with the heather birds.
—"Initiation,"
Sylvia Plath
Read this passage. In your own words, explain how the
central conflict leads Millicent to change. One sentence for a 9th grader
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