... is failing as an actress and is left to fend for herself in a world very hostile to her. ‘Ten minutes later, a stout lady in blue serge, with a bunch of artificial ‘parmas’ at her bosom, a black hat covered with purple pansies, white gloves, boots, with white uppers, and a vanity bag containing one and three, sang in a low contralto voice.” In Ada Moss’s opinion, her career as an actress is failing , her life is rapidly spiralling out of control and she cannot support herself any longer so she starts to deceive herself, up to a point where she can do nothing but lie and put on an fictitious act to the outside world. The underlining theme of the two stories are self - deception - something that both characters suffer from. There are similarities in the way that they behave and mislead themselves, but one seems to be ...

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