Throughout the story Ms. Tricksy stressed the importance of being above the average pretty woman and avoiding men's passes. Syrena started out doing well in carrying out these stealthy gold digger maneuvers. As the story unravels I'm beginning to see some Ms. Tricksy's teachings ignored by Syrena. she already broke the rules by continuing her conversations with Vardin after her mother told her to leave him alone. She pacified her self by saying that she was only still talking to Vardine to see what extra gifts she could squeeze out of him. - she broke the master pimp's rule and we see how that turned out for her.-mistake one
"Syrena's impatience would suffer her to wait no longer, and having enquir'd where Lord R-- lodged, for he kept no House in Town, drest herself in as alluring a manner as she could, and went to make him a Visit."- A direct violation of pimpin rule number two.
"she (ms. tricksy) told her that none but those who were not ashamed to be thought common, ever went to visit Men at their Lodgings"
Once again Syrena pacifies her mind with sloppy, childish notion. "she imagined that going to him in that manner, would give him a high Idea of the extreme Passion she had flatter'd him with, and that also it would make her seem to act without Disguise, and that she was too innocent even to know there was any indecency in what she did.
This quote from the narrator goes on to confirm the stubbornness and the naivety unfolding in Syrena that I previously suspected would be her downfall,"So all the Arguments Mrs. Tricksy made use of were to no purpose; the pert Baggage told her she was capable of managing now for herself, and would walk with Leading-Strings no longer." Syrena's hard head, I think, is going to bring an embarrassing end to the dynamic duo's pimpin reign.
(Sorry for the lack of page numbers but I ended up having to read the story off the internet.)
I like how you call them "pimping rules" because Syrena's mom is def pimping Syrena out for $$$. This reminds me again of that song I mentioned in class by Paul Oakenfold "All Girls Want Sex and Money." This seems to be what Haywood is warning against on her title page and throughout the book. The other pimping rule that Syrena breaks is that she starts giving out the goods for free which is how she ruins her relations with Lord M-- when she passes on the G (166).
ReplyDeleteIt was very interesting to see the way Syrena convinced herself of things. The part that kept sticking out to me was when she would refer to the relationships she was in business terms. She would talk about the prospect of marriage as a business transaction.
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