"The Final Girl is boyish, in a word. Just as the killer is not fully masculine, she is not fully feminine- not, in any case, feminine in the ways of her friends." (Clover, 204)
"Halloween" perfectly demonstrates Clover's outlook on the Final Girl. In "Halloween," the "Final Girl," is played by Jaimie Lee Curtis. Her character fits the mold of the "Final Girl" trope, because she is unlike all her other on-screen 'girly," counterparts. The 'Final Girl" trope works because of her triumphs as a "tomboy." The male spectators is what the 'Final Girl," is made for. As I've stated in my previous discussion post regarding Clover's theories: "The male audience when watching the "final girl" relates to her defeating the antagonist, because she is displaying "masculine" traits in her success although she is a woman, yet they don't align with the antagonist in the end, because they have lost to the "final girl," displaying feminine traits, although typically male. The "final girl," is also supposed to appeal to the type of girl that is more special than that of her typical, basic friends. She has a knack for noticing the little things, clever on her feet, a slight aversion to most typical, girly habits, a lack of sexual connection between her as a character and the audience, so when she faces the "boss level," she's stripped of the male gaze, and is instead made to be relatable to men. In a misunderstood manner of gender-standardized norms, slasher films encourage the male audience to related to a female protagonist despite its stereotypes" (Angeli La Guardia).
