Elle Woods

Elle Woods is the protagonist in the franchise “Legally Blonde”. Woods is perceived as a dumb blonde because she is a rich sorority girl majoring in fashion. When Woods is dumped she decides she is going to attend Harvard to teach her ex-boyfriend that she is more than her looks. Woods had to be very persistent in the process of applying to Harvard. She stopped partying and spent dozens of hours studying for her LSATs. Since she is a fashion major she has to work extremely hard to convince Harvard why she deserves a spot in the school. When she arrives at law school everyone underestimates her and assumes she is stupid because Wood's femininity and intelligence co-exist. When she gets an internship at her professor's law firm working on a murder trial, Woods is determined to win no matter how persistent she has to be. She goes to the length of going behind her proffers back to visit the defendant in jail to earn her trust and get her alibi. After the first night of the trial, her professor makes a move on her and she freaks out and decides to leave law school. She then realizes that she wanted to become a lawyer to prove people like her profferer and ex-boyfriend wrong. She overcomes the obstacle of her unprofessional professor and takes his job as the lead lawyer for the defendant. Woods then uses her knowledge about hair and fashion to find a gray area in the witness testimony and discovers the witness is the murderer. Woods went from being a fashion major that everyone doubted to being a successful Lobbyist in Washington, DC because of her persistence.