Couples

"After all, I'd been Tommy'd friend for years until all this couple stuff had come up. It was perfectly possible that to someone on the out side, I'd look like Ruth's 'natural sucessor'." (100)

I can't understand why Kathy could give Tommy away so easily. She obviously liked him more that Ruth. Of corse she was not in love with him at this time. But, she must have felt something. And, she just passively stood their while Ruth stole him. After all, they had been friends long before couples were formed. Maybe Kathy really did just see him as a friend. But, I don't think this is true, because of how their love grew so fast at the end, when Ruth gave them permission, only when she wasn't around to see it. When Tommy and Ruth split up, Kathy was even the reason they got back together! And, I think she was a bigger reason than she thought. Maybe Tommy would never have gone back to Ruth if Kathy would have stated her true feelings. Tommy probably thought that Kathy was not interested. If Kathy only spoke up, they would not need the three years deferral, they could have had thirty together before their inevitable completion.