Striving+For+Success

__The Consequences of Striving for Success:__

//__Definition:__//
 * Power and Money leading to Arrogance and unhappiness.
 * The definition of success being imposed by society.
 * Sometimes you don't exactly know what you are striving for and end up becoming an individual that is a stranger to those you know and love.

//__Characters:__// However, Fag soon becomes frustrated and tired of this life and the fake perfection of it. Her meaning of her life moves from Personality to Materiality, meaning that all she came to live for, primarily, was accessories, clothing and jewels.
 * Ginnie: Ginnie accepted that success was simply having a loving family.
 * Fag: Strives to be better that her mother. In becoming a Carrel, she is exposed to the 'good life', with the rich people who as children, they considered to be 'toffs', and in Fag becoming accepted in this society, she becomes one of those people that she once thought badly of as a child.
 * Ruby: Once she becomes married she begins to distance herself from her family and become arrogant. Her family starts considering her to be a 'toff'. This is because of the way she shows herself off, with precious gems and stones around her neck and wrists.

//__Setting:__//
 * Growing up in poor Spreydon and downtown. poverty-stricken Christchurch suburbs leaves the Feron family dreaming for more when their reality is that it will only eve be dreams and nothing more.
 * Ginnie and Fag become engrossed in the magazine 'Miracles and Oracles', a magazine which shows what the good life would be like and since they are children they act out this life as if it were their own.
 * All school teachers of G and F are pessimistic teachers that keep reiterating that young women are to become nothing more than unemployed mothers or at the very least, low wage factory workers.
 * Mrs Lightowler was the only teacher that was optimistic about the woman's role in society.
 * When Fag becomes involved in the Carrel society she becomes immersed in a world of objects and glamour.

//__Symbols/ Motifs:__//
 * Magazine 'Miracles and Oracles'- The media is telling them what they want to know, filling them with hopes and dreams that in all reality, are only concepts they can see and not experience.
 * Alcohol.
 * Jewellery, Accessories and Clothing.

//__Quotations:__//
 * About Ruby- 'She had a lot of beads or stuff around her neck'
 * Ginnie about Fag at end of book- 'I felt like there wasn't a person anymore, just clothes and alcohol. I felt like she'd died'