Brilliant Lies - In many ways, Susy is just like Gary. Do you agree? :: English Literature

fantabulous Lies - In many ways, Susy is just like Gary. Do you agree?In many ways, Susy is just like Gary. Do you agree?Susy Conner, and Gary Fitzgerald. Both ar Brilliant liars - andseemingly total opposite gender counterparts of each otherwise. To claimhowever, that they ar alike simply because they ar liars is to placethem into a throw that is far too restricting and incomplete. No, thesimilarities - and even differences - between Susy and Gary lie down the stairs the surface. It is in these more subtle ways that the dickenscharacters reveal themselves to be more alike than one would think.At the heart of Susy and Garys personalities is that one mark thatseems to set them apart from the rest of the characters of the play -ambition. Theirs is an intense, bordering on violent, ambition - adrive to succeed in life, to gain what they want - and neither bring inany scruples about running over everyone else to farm what they want.They are not above lying to get their way, n ot above gaining go for andthen throwing it away once they have what they want - this is shown inno clearer way than when Gary convinces Vince to support him, thenthrows him to the wolves at the end - I lied. Dont get pious Vince.This place was ripe for a management buy out. These are hard times.Weve got to become much more aggressive, and you know, and I know,and they know that you havent got the vertebral column to go in hard.This manipulation of others extends to include their extremelyvengeful natures. Susys vindictiveness in lying to Katy aboutMarions sexuality (revenge for Katy telling the truth about her story- As soon as I saw that enclose I knew youd fall in love with her. -is mirrored by Garys joyousness in crushing Vince after he reveals histrue colours.They are cruel to an almost merciless extent - the vicious battlebetween the two is more than a fight in order to win the consequence - it isa fight for survival. Both Gary and Susy know that if they are not tenacio us in the pursuit for triumph, they will be crushed by theother - another characteristic that they share - the obsession forpower. In a way, the fight back between these two characters is not forthe compensation money - but for the brain of power that comes onlyfrom triumph.Another trait that they both share is a sense of stubborn selfrighteousness that somehow constantly places themselves in the role of