Sam

Sam in The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is a senior in high school, so she is around 17 years old when the story starts. She and her stepbrother Patrick make friends with Charlie and introduce him to things such as drugs, alcohol, and parties. Sam is always presented from Charlie’s perspective in the novel. Charlie has a crush on Sam, which develops into love. In Charlie’s eyes, Sam is beautiful: “Sam has brown hair and very very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn’t make a big deal about itself.” (pp. 21-22)

At first, Sam seems to be confident and mature. When Charlie tells Sam that he has a crush on her, she asks him not to think about her in that way because he’s too young for her (p. 24). Sam becomes protective of Charlie; for example, she ge...