Chris Character Analysis

Chris is Lara Jean’s best friend and Genevieve’s cousin. Lara Jean describes Chris as her exact opposite: Chris is sexually active, attends lots of parties, drinks and smokes, and is generally impulsive. And while Chris’s reputation as a partier precedes her at school, Lara Jean is quiet and shy. Despite their differences, Chris and Lara Jean get along great—Lara Jean says that she and Chris get each other in a way that they don’t get other people. They’ve been friends for at least five years. Though Chris isn’t always the most reliable friend (Lara Jean suggests she’s like a stray cat in that she comes and goes as she pleases), when Chris is around, she’s extremely supportive of Lara Jean. She encourages Lara Jean to step outside her comfort zone and is supportive of her dating Peter; Peter, she says, is surprisingly “decent” and won’t pressure Lara Jean into physical activity she’s not ready for. However, some of Chris’s support for the relationship stems from the fact that while she and Genevieve are cousins, Chris detests Genevieve and is more than willing to support Lara Jean if it angers or annoys Genevieve. The rivalry between Chris and Genevieve is also what finally convinces Chris to come on the ski trip—Genevieve is organizing it.