Before Big mouth In the timeline, Jesse leads a relatively happy life – she’s an excellent student, never backs down from a fight, always stands her ground against the patriarchy, but most importantly, she has a loving Stable family. Unfortunately for her, the onset of puberty and the divorce of her parents was a coincidence that she couldn’t bear.
Jesse may be the toughest of all her friends, but her anger is mostly directed at her mom because of the changes she herself is going through (which, honestly, is not the latter’s fault). Jesse will need time to come to terms with many different perspectives, but her path to her end won’t be easy, and it probably won’t be for some time.
her statue of liberty moment
Jesse and his classmates went to New York to visit the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately for her, this coincided with her first period, which made the situation uncomfortable at best and embarrassing at worst.
Jessie is lucky in that her friends are on hand to provide quick help, and Lady Liberty herself offers some much-needed advice. Still, while Jess isn’t ashamed of the outcome, nor should she be, that initial moment is certainly one of her most painful memories.
She was furious with Missy.
Jesse throws a sleepover and invites popular girls Devin and Lola, as well as Missy. There, the latter consumed too much sugar and embarrassed himself a bit.
Devon and Laura mocked Missy and encouraged her to further humiliate herself. At this point, Jesse values the need to be popular over basic human decency and joins the ranks of cruelty.
punishing her mom for her parents divorce
As a child of divorce, Jesse preferred one parent to another. In this case, her father. She’s angry at her mother for tearing her family apart (it was Shannon’s choice to divorce her husband, after all), so she jumps on it the first chance she gets.
Meanwhile, Jesse decided the best way to “punish” her mom was to show more love to her dad, who was living in the basement at the time. This kind of revengeful behavior is certainly unhealthy.
Finding it difficult to connect with girls
Jesse clearly needs female companionship, and her friendship with Missy (to some degree) proves this. But overall, Jess was unable to form lasting connections with other girls in her grade.
In fact, she often turns to the boys for emotional support, leaning on Nick, Andrew and Jay, but mainly Matthew. These two characters spend a lot of time together and are always there for each other no matter what happens. It’s sweet, but if Jessie could give more girls a chance, she’d have friends who fully understood her problems.
her criminal activities
With Connie’s encouragement, Jesse turns to shoplifting to balance all the anger in her mind. She decided to steal random items from the pharmacy, but eventually got caught.
The pharmacist was surprisingly generous, reading her family’s full history by changing the prescription, but Jessie felt humiliated, ashamed that the wizard had appeared for the first time.
refuses to reveal her relationship with Jay
Jesse and Jay enjoy making out with each other—and not thanks to Connie’s intrusive suggestions—but she gives up on all that when he asks her to make their relationship official.
It was revealed that Jessie was privately embarrassed by Jay, his family life and his behavior, which is why she wanted to keep it a secret. Not only is this unfair to Jay, but it exposes Jesse’s superficiality and disappreciation of his attempts to connect with her.
Can’t tell her ninth grade boyfriend is a liar
Jesse’s tumultuous relationship with Michelangelo is fraught with hormones, anxiety and depression. Believing that she’ll never find someone as interesting or cool as him (he’s definitely not), she almost allows herself to push her limits to please him.
Luckily, she doesn’t perform the sex he proposes, but Jesse is distraught because she’s been led to believe that not satisfying her boyfriend will actually cause him physical pain.
Unable to reconcile with Cantor Dina
Jesse understandably despises her mother’s new girlfriend, Cantor Dina, as she automatically pushes her guilt in the wrong direction (without noticing that her parents’ marriage has been eroding over the years. )
Her hatred for the character is so extreme, it borders on violence. How long can Jess go without any resolution to something she holds so dear? The longer she angers Ember, the more difficult her path to self-realization will be.
Embarrassed about her menstrual cycle
At camp, Jessie was brutally awakened by more menstrual blood than she had ever experienced before as it completely soaked her sheets. Connie confirms that this is a completely natural phenomenon during menstruation.
In order to prove his strength, Jesse went swimming with a bunch of sanitary napkins stuffed in his swimsuit.in typical Big mouth They separate and eventually absorb all the water in the lake, a metaphor for Jesse’s unbearable shame at what happened.
Must stay away from her friends
The end of seventh grade was undoubtedly the saddest experience for Jesse: she had to leave her home, her town, all her friends, and her father.
Worse yet, she learns that none of her new friends understand her suburban views, necessitating the arrival of a dashing young man named Michelangelo to fill the void in her life. Of course, this isn’t a good thing for her in the long run either.