The problem is that Margo Roth Spiegelman has been doing this to a fault: manipulating people into thinking she's more amazing than she really is. You can imagine another well-but never quite perfectly, you know?" (3.22.155). Margo speaks to how important this is, saying, "I can't be you.
It turns out she doesn't want to be found, but it's a good thing Quentin does, because they're able to finally define themselves instead of letting others define them. Quentin realizes during his quest to find her that Margo is "Someone who-because no one thought she was a person-had no one to really talk to" (2.15.21). Quentin thinks Margo Roth Spiegelman is leaving clues so he can find her, but that's because he's still picturing her as some sort of super-human goddess instead of what she really is: a teenage girl. We can understand why she'd leave: No one at school really understands her (her fault) and her parents aren't the warmest or most welcoming people in Florida (not her fault). The she disappears, cementing her status as a teenage gone girl. She's way more fun than he is, though, which probably explains why he latches onto her-he's getting good grades, and she's mischief. We're not sure why Quentin likes Margo Roth Spiegelman since she drags him around and kind of treats him like poop. But Margo Roth Spiegelman, despite her obsessive, planning nature, is unable to see past her own anger. When she learns her boyfriend is cheating on her, she vandalizes his car and property, along with that of pretty much everyone connected to him, which is going to hurt these kids' parents (who have to pay for this stuff) more than the kids themselves. She's "the most horribly self-centered person in the history of the world" (3.22.59) (her words, not ours) and destructive. She's also self-absorbed, illustrated by the fact that "she never really asked any questions" (1.3.1) she only talks about herself. "She never acted as if she liked anyone all that much" (1.1.35), and she refers to her "friends" as her "various and sundry minions" (1.2.41). Margo Roth Spiegelman is basically the "cool girl" that Amy Dunne hates so much. (This is highly unlikely because actual circus performers are trained professionals, not just runaways who are "all curves and soft edges" (1.4.86).) She snuck her way backstage at a concert, had some underage drinks, and then "rejected the bassist" (1.1.21), making her both edgy and virginal, every antisocial nerd's dream. She runs away from home occasionally to allegedly learn to play guitar in Mississippi, or spend three days traveling with the circus because "they thought she had potential on the trapeze" (1.1.21). Margo Roth Spiegelman is the girl who "loved mysteries so much that she became one " (Prologue.35), and while in school, she seems intent to be the manic pixie dream girliest of them all.
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