I don't feel Jay Height is so much a fleshed out, complex character herself, as much as she more prominently fulfills the purpose of portraying an avatar for women around the world who go through much similar, psychologically damaging situations that are personified by the entity in the 2014 instant horror classic. Maika Monroe portrays the character simply as she needs to; an innocently sweet, upbeat woman changed in an instant by an uncaring asshole of a man, and that blank depressive state mixed with the constant terror & tension that follows her anywhere she goes now. It doesn't take a deep analysis to see this, but that's exactly what makes It Follows and Jay so universally appealing and it's what the best horror movies & protagonists should always strive to accomplish, reflections of modern society no matter how ugly that truth may be.
