The film begins with a young Violet being warned by her mother not to get into the pool with the other kids. When she ignores her mother and gets in anyway her hair expands and she's made fun of by all the white kids. This shows us that Violet has had to create a standard of beauty for herself in order to protect her from the pain of the world. But this has caused her to become someone that is separated from who she truly is.
The journey for Violet's inner life comes through her willingness to shed the armor of her persona that she's created in order to be fully herself for the first time in her life. And because she loses her mask she finds that the things she's connected to in her life aren't real, her job in particular as she simply sells sex in order to get a payday. And her relationship with Clint is one that is built on an illusion as well which ends their engagement on their wedding day. And her relationship with her mother which we have seen began her need to please the world.
For the first time Violet begins to know that she's disconnected from who she truly is, and Zoe - the hairdresser's daughter - teaches her that she wants to be herself regardless about what anyone thinks. And the imagery of Violet floating in the pool on her wedding day shows us that she's finally choosing to find the release that comes when someone chooses to love themselves. And that kind of love is contagious (which we see when everyone at the wedding jumps in with her). Violet isn't complete by the end of the film, but she's on track for being who she truly is in her life and that matters most.
