Sharpey Evans in the ‘High School Musical’ franchise is viewed as the villain of most of the story lines. However, I take a different view of her.I believe that she was a misunderstood character and then once the Disney Company saw her being viewed as the villain made her into one.

In the first ‘High School Musical’, the characters were coming into their junior year of high school. Junior Year is around the time that actors start to get bigger and bigger parts. Mind you that Sharpey and Ryan are known to have had big parts all their lives. This, however, could very well be a scare tactic that they use. (No one said theatre is fair). Sharpey and Ryan had been working their butts off to get to the point they were at and they believed they deserved the parts. The siblings had to have gone to vocal lessons, dance lessons, acting lessons, alongside rehearsals and school work. WHEN DID THEY HAVE TIME TO SLEEP!

Then here comes a basketball player and a science geek that haven’t worked hard at all in theatre. They haven’t spent the sleepless hours looking over sheet music, scripts, monologues, and all the other homework that they had. These two people who haven’t done anything that Sharpey did at all, get the parts.

Mind you as I said before, theatre is not fair at all. However, we are still talking about Juniors in high school here. Ryan understood more of the unfair nature of theatre and thus does not go overboard to prevent Troy and Gabriella’s audition process. Sharpey does not understand how unfair theatre is and through knowing that she has used scare tactics in the past resorts to those as a way to defend what she believes to be rightfully hers.

Sharpey then is viewed as the villain and is made into what she is in the second movie by the movie’s writers. I’m not saying that any of the things she did are okay. I’m saying she’s a high school junior who has worked LITERALLY her whole life and is watching something she loves being taken from her by two people who have done nothing to deserve it. Working hard for something you love makes it hurt all the more when it is not achieved in the end. If you were Sharpey, what would you have done and be honest.