Lola
- Created by: emi2266
- Created on: 19-01-22 21:04
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- Lola
- Victim
- ***** by PM
- Broken home
- Doesn't known perpetrator, believes B
- Criminal
- Hid truth - knew the perpetrator, let R go to prison
- Married PM - protecting the criminal
- Long, pleasant life - painted unfavourably at the end by B
- Key Moments
- Conflict w/ B at rehearsals
- Convo w/ the twins & PM in library
- People seeing her injuries at dinner
- ***** by PM, Manipulated by B
- Appears to know its not R - never comes clean
- Married PM
- About Her
- 15 yrs old - desperate to be seen as an adult
- Parents are divorced
- B jealous of L - disliking approach to her
- Manipulates B, uses her situation as leverage
- At age 80 - looks young and vibrant, will outlive B
- Quotes
- ‘refugees from a bitter domestic civil war’
- ‘perfectly composed, having liberally applied perfume and changed into a green gingham frock to offset her colouring. Her sandals revealed an ankle bracelet and toenails painted vermilion’
- ‘’I’ll thank you not to talk about them in front of the children’ It was a construction she much had once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith’
- ‘Lola twisted her shoulder to reveal, high on her arm, a long scratch’
- ‘bloody bands of chafing’
- ‘Briony’s compassion made Lola’s eyes fill’
- ‘the scratch on her face was undeniable, the bruising on her arm really rather shocking’
- ‘the helplessness in Lola’s voice’ | ‘the same weak, submissive voice’
- ‘Lola did not need to lie, to look her supposed attacker in the eye and summon the courage to accuse him, because all that work was done for her, innocently, and without guile by the younger girl. Lola was only required to remain silent about the truth, banish it and forget it entirely, and persuade herself not of some contrary tale, but simply of her own uncertainty. She couldn’t see, his hand was over her eyes, she was terrified, she couldn’t say for sure’
- ‘poor vain and vulnerable Lola…who longed to throw off the last restraints of childhood, who saved herself from humiliation by falling in love, or persuading herself she had, and who could not believe her luck when Briony insisted on doing the talking and blaming. And what luck that was for Lola – barley more than a child, prised open and taken – to marry her ******’
- ‘my high-living, chain-smoking cousin’ | 'as lean and fit as a racing dog, and still faithful’
- ‘a touch of the stage villain here…she could have been Cruella de Vil'
- Victim
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