I think that’s the wrong way of framing things. Good or bad isn’t what you are. It’s what you do. And Morgan has spent ten years doing some serious good. Does it erase her past errors? No, and she has to live with that burden. But I suspect she’s well on her way to balancing out her past sins with the kindnesses she’s done since. Maybe she can’t erase her locker graffiti, but she can — with the time and effort she’s put in — eventually overwrite it with new and better things.

A good ten years of brainwashing would do the trick, I’d imagine.

None of this means that people should forget about how shitty Morgan was in high school, but it does mean that it would be silly to think of her as the exact same person.

It’s less about erasing her past and more about understanding that the loss of Maggie fundamentally changed Morgan. They were never that shallow, meangirl bully again.

Even the Morgan that attacked Oats was very different from high school Morgan. High School Morgan bullied people for sadistic joy, while Mean Clown Morgan was on a self-righteous warpath born from the grief and guilt that Maggie’s survival reignited.

He broke her fourth wall, for one thing.

I don’t think thats necessarily the take away here from Morgan realizing the joke her sister played on her, but even if it was thats kind of a Glib conclusion on if Morgan can become a better person instead of remaining a high school mean girl?

You can’t necessarily erase that I suppose in a typical sense, But you can certainly erase the idea that you, as a person, suck, by not being like that anymore. Which has of course made an profound impact on our protagonist Mcbell as she becomes the clown that probably inspired her and wanted her to be one both in the past and now.

And Always look on the bright side of life.