Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25755332-20141126044747

Maybe the real reason Ali bullied everyone was that she was insecure? That doesn't justify it though. Perhaps she's copying her mom's behaviour, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

I mean Jessica was kind of a bully and made rude comments, for instance to Hanna. Another theory I've read somewhere was that Ali was physically and emotionally abused by her mother and that triggered her behaviour.

Isn't it also kind of scientifically proven that often bullies are the ones that are the most fragile people and are putting up facades? I mean Ali puts almost everytime up a facade and we have only seen her vulnerable a few times.For example the time she saw Veronica Hastings when she had a bruised lip, she was vulnerable for a moment  and suddenly switched back to "herself" and in some interactions with Emily has she managed to be vulnerable. I think that her facade is sort of a defence mechanism to protect herself.

On the whole it's difficult to understand and explain Ali's behaviour, when we don't know her whole backstory. We have just seen "the monster" and Ali trying to redeem herself, but we haven't seen why or when "the monster" was created. Until we have seen her whole story it isn't quite fair to judge her and label her as pure evil. My theory is that she's had a troublesome childhood and that her background played a huge part when the "monster" was created. And that her being the bully rather than the victim was a way to put up a facade to seem more confident and make people see her as a threat rather than the person to pick on, simply a defence mechanism.