Go Ask Alice Themes

We're pretty sure that the Rolling Stones wrote "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" about Alice. Well, okay, they would have if she'd been a real person. Who somehow knew Mick Jagger… moving on. In G...

Since Go Ask Alice is thinly veiled anti-drug propaganda, it kind of goes without saying that drugs and alcohol play a pretty huge role in our tale. Alice's journey into the substance-abusing hippi...

Go Ask Alice is supposed to be a diary, so there's quite a bit of anguished soul-searching and self-indulgent whining. There's no getting around the fact that Alice has almost non-existent self-est...

One of the key ways that Alice is able to pull off all of her shenanigans in Go Ask Alice is a healthy dose of self-deception and denial. The whole time she is doing drugs, dealing drugs, and havin...

Remember: The whole point of Go Ask Alice is to teach kids that drugs are bad, and the authors wanted to cover all the bases. If you keep that in mind, Alice's reliance upon religious tropes whenev...

Even though Alice sees her family as part of her problem in Go Ask Alice, the deaths of her Gran and Gramps really trigger a response in her. Before they die, her diary entries are punctuated with...

When it comes to Alice in Go Ask Alice, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between her innocence and her immaturity because they're so intertwined. She's possibly one of the most sheltered,...

Alice has many problems in Go Ask Alice, but some of them have to do with her unrealistic plans and eternal optimism that verges on delusional. A lot of this stems from her immaturity and lack of e...

No coming-of-age tale would be complete without a type of sexual awakening, and Go Ask Alice is no exception. Alice's sexuality evolves alongside her exploration of drugs and hippie culture, so we...

In Go Ask Alice, Alice's isolation stems from an inherent inability to communicate. She can't talk to her parents because she feels like they don't understand where she's coming from, and she refus...