Westerfeld pretties5/15/2023 "The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them." The Narrator, page 182 It indicates that the surgery renders people objectively beautiful, and insinuates that this beauty is a benefit to a person's survival human beings subconsciously want to help those they find attractive, so getting the surgery provides an evolutionary advantage. This is the first description in the novel of what pretties look like. Somewhere in the backs of their minds, people were always looking for these markers." The Narrator, page 16 Big eyes and full lips like a kid's smooth clear skin symmetrical features and a thousand other little clues. "There was a certain kind of beauty, a prettiness that everyone could see.
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