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between the two of you. …. Sophie enjoys herself. You don’t.” 90-91 Sophie doesn’t always keep on a thing much. She likes to have free choices in
passing her own life as described in her conversation with Olly who had become her new boyfriend after her previous relationship had broken up.
“Why not?” Olly shrugged. “I don’t believe in wasting time. If something’s not working for you, then get out. Move on.” Sophie looked at him with
interest. “That’s exactly what I think.” 159
From what have been quoted and described above, it can be brought to a close statement that Sophie is an attractive person that she can attract ones’ attention on her
and get many friends.
f. Talkative
Sophie is a kind of chatty person. She is very friendly and she tends to be an easy – going person that she can adapt and place herself well in a new community.
She is able to talk a lot to someone new who she just already meets. For example, she can force herself well and keep staying there to communicate with new people from
the party who are Olly’s friends even though she doesn’t interest and knows nothing in politics. It is described in the quotations as follows:
For the rest of the dinner, Sophie was bored witless. They tried to include her but they were talking about education, the next election, foreign policy in
Sudan, a bunch of people she’d never heard of. She felt like asking what they’d thought of the pictures in Heat of Ger radically slimmed down again,
but she decided she’d better not. 369
Now Sophie was on a subject she felt confident about. She started gabbling about Jamie versus Gordon Ramsay versus Rick Stein. Peter listened and
nodded and occasionally asked questions, apparently fascinated. 370
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Sophie likes to share her life openly even to share her private life to someone she has just already known whom she thinks good to talk to. She feels comfortable
enough to share her private life to others that it can lighten her stress. The conversation moved on to more personal topics. ….
She told him about Betterton and Mum’s three husbands and infinite lovers and Floyd, the pony John had given her for her thirteenth birthday, whom
she’d had abandoned when Mum ran off with Jimmy. It was the kind of conversation you would never have with a passing acquaintance, but only
someone you wanted to know a lot, lot better. 432
2. Natasha’s Characteristics a. Independent
Natasha is described as an independent person. She is used to managing and organizing her life orderly. Since in her childhood, she always be the more intelligent
in her school. She is so independent that she has learnt anything by herself from books. In the novel, it is written that she likes reading books, and learning from them
which are not only about science but also about knowledge of life. “Natasha had always been a great believer in books. As a child they had
transported her to a world where a gang of children rounded up international criminals and Cinderella got the prince and now she still relied on her
manuals that told her how to buy the best beauty products, how to dress correctly, how to decorate, how to have perfect manners, how to appreciate
wine, how to stay in hip hotels, how never to pun on a kilo, how to be great in bed. She kept them hidden under her bed and studied them earnestly at night
time, writing down the key bits in her Smythson notebook.” 101
From the way she thinks and behaves, Natasha tends to consider anything seriously. Natasha always takes a deep concern on what she is doing. And she is used
to living in tidiness and discipline. Natasha always thinks that if everything is well organized, she will have a perfect day because everything is under her control as
