1. Quinn got pregnant because she was irresponsible and hypocritical. She then proceeded to make the smart choice by giving up her baby for adoption. When given the chance to reconnect with her child, she attempted to get that same child taken away from her loving mother and thrown into foster care. She’s lucky Shelby didn’t press charges. She regained almost everything she lost because of her pregnancy, including…
2. Sue let Quinn back onto the Cheerios not once but twice.
3. She lost her father, but she was apparently better off for it. She found three families willing to take her in, no questions asked. And she got her mother back.
4. When she lost Finn, it was her own fault. She cheated. She managed to get him back as a friend and as a boyfriend.
5. She resolved her enmity with Santana and they are now good friends.
6. She lost Sam for the same goddamn reason that she lost Finn, her infidelity. They moved on to be close friends.
7. She lost Finn again because she was using him to win Prom Queen. Again, she managed to regain his friendship.
8. At the beginning of the year, Quinn was in a tailspin. She was committing felonies by the dozen and straight up attempting to destroy any future she had. With that tough love speech, and the support of her friends, she got her life back on track. She went from girl who was cutting classes to earning a full-ride scholarship to Yale University.
9. She got in a car wreck because she chose to support her friend despite knowing she was making a bad decision. She was texting while driving, a crime in Ohio when she got hit by her car. She was lucky enough not only to live, but to come out with no disfiguring scars to mar her God-given gorgeousness, and her only major injury was lower-body paralysis that lasted two months.
Quinn has lost a lot but she sure is good at getting it back. She’s beautiful, she’s intelligent, and she’s talented. She has all the tools she needs to be wildly successful and most every misstep she’s had is partially or completely her fault.
Instead of highlighting the fact that her hard work has allowed her to walk again, she uses her paralysis as a wait to solicit sympathy votes and then play off her recovery as a miracle in front of her peers.
I’m not saying that Finn isn’t wildly out of line here, and won’t continue to be for the rest of the episode, but he’s not exactly completely wrong when he tells Quinn she’s got a lot going for her.
Finn is struggling here. And frankly, it’s mostly his fault. He didn’t pick a career direction until a few weeks previous because he was too afraid to think about his future. And his options are much more limited than Quinn; he doesn’t have her smarts.
He engaged to a girl who is angry at him for doing what he thought was a noble thing running with her. His girl, who’s he comparing to Quinn, is smart, is talented, and is beautiful, but she is also struggling with her direction in life.
His anger isn’t justified, but it’s understandable.