Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Flat Characters

"And I had a kind of vision of Chrissie and Rodney back at the cottages, in the months leading up to this moment, probing this subject between them. " (154)

Chrissy and Rodney are characterized as a veteran couple who lead the cottage's trends, based on what they choose to pick up from one TV show or another. They are seldom mentioned outside of conflicts within Kathy about Ruth following their fake behavior. An occasion where they are important outside of these criteria is when they try to convince the Hailsham students to tell them more about this deferral program. They could have known all along that this possible was not Ruth's model, but just that, a possible match. They might have planned to be so that this business woman would be close enough to through suspicion off of the fact that the whole trip was basically an ambush. This singularly minded ploy did not get them far, however, because the Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy truthfully had no information to add. Even though Ruth may have misled them, they obviously never found Madame because at the end because we find out that they were split up after all, and tragically, Chrissie completed on her second donation. Obviously they never changed, and they never really loved each other because, Rodney was not even upset.

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