Pressure To Be Someone You Are Not

In the story Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher, the protagonist, Polly, had a lot of pressure to be someone she is not. When she was an adolescent, she played "boyish" games such as Marauders where she showed her fellow marauders rituals to become "brothers". Since she was young, the children around her have not separated by gender so they do not know the difference of sexes. So this is why it is not weird by societal for girls and boys to play together and think that they are of the same gender when they are that young. But when she ages to her teen ages, society forces her to be more lady like, so she is forced to wear make up, be infatuated with romances, and stand in the shadows of males. She tried to keep her childish and boyish ways but society (the boys and girls in her school) ostracized her because she wasn't lady like so she was pressured to be someone shes not in order to be popular and liked by her friends.