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

Brilliant 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. some(prenominal) are Brilliant liars - andseemingly total opposite gender counterparts of each other. To sayhowever, that they are alike simply because they are liars is to placethem into a pulp that is far too restricting and incomplete. No, thesimilarities - and even differences - between Susy and Gary liebeneath the surface. It is in these to a greater extent subtle ways that the twocharacters reveal themselves to be much alike than one would think.At the heart of Susy and Garys personalities is that one trait 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 obey in life, to gain what they want - and neither haveany scruples about running over everyone else to get what they want.They are not above delusion to get their way, not above gaining trust 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 guts 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 honor about her story- As soon as I saw that dyke I knew youd fall in love with her. -is mirrored by Garys sport 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 case - it isa fight for survival. Both Gary and Susy know that if they are notrelentless in the seeking for triumph, they will be crushed by theother - another characteristic that they share - the obsession forpower. In a way, the struggle between these two characters is not forthe compensation money - but for the sense of power that comes onlyfrom triumph.Another trait that they both share is a sense of stubborn self responsibility that somehow constantly places themselves in the role of