After avoiding Wyatt Susy moves on to a guy named Jason, and is now in college. Her new roomate, Amy, builds a relationship with Susy's mom. That is because Daphne was able to use her techniques of manipulation and charm. Eventually their conversations go from the normal to the abnormal; Amy and her begin speaking of Amy's sex life, and even takes her to get birth control. One day while Amy's parents were visiting the dorm, Daphne begins speaking about Amy's sex life in front of them. Poor Susy was left extreemly speecless because Amy's parents left with her for good. Furthermore, Susy was ready to marry a man by the name of Noah. Unfortunately upon realizing that their relationship was insincere( Susy would sleep with other men as a way of getting back at him for his constant lying) she calls it quits. She then calls Wyatt to end things compleatly with him, but she is set back because he tells her that he has cancer and is dying.
Susy moves on to another realtionship that does not go well just as the other. This new one was English and is called Gordon. They were doing pretty well but things went down hill when he meets her mother. Now, Daphne is falling back into the intoxication path, and continues to use her back pain as an excuse. Although she is simply making it worsen. However as much pain as there is, Daphne still attempts to flirt with Gordon, and Gordon ends up telling Susy that he no longer has feelings for her and that he is in another relationship. Once they break up, Susy and her mom are regaining that bond they used to have. This then enables daphne to tell Susy that because she had found a painful lump on her breast, the doctor tested her for breast cancer.
The next man in Susy's life (there were way more before him)is Christopher. She ends up eloping with him and gets pregnant twice. The first time she has a miscarriage because this runs in her family she doesn't give up. Instead she gets pregnant once more, however this time she aborts because Christopher tells her that he is not ready to become a father. By the end of this chapter, he tells her he is ready, and although she is guilty for the prior abortion, she still decides to try to become the mother she wish she had.
Quote: " She lied, cheated on her boyfriends, thought only of sex, power triumph, double-timed, tripple-timed."(Sonnenberg,197)
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In this quote Susy is confessing to Christopher who she used to be before they met. When I read this I felt proud of Susy, because it showed that she was moving past her old days. It also proved my point when I had said, while reading, that Susy was becoming more and more like her mother. sadly her mother did not change like Susy is.
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