In a way, Cecily also has a pseudonym, her Banbury is her romantic self. In her diary she creates an alternate version of herself, a person who suffers the blissful pains of first love, engagement, heartbreak and remorse. Her strong desire for romantic affection is blatantly obvious, and for this reason she too creates her own characters and follows her own script, and is in her own way an even more professional bunburista than Jack or Algy. A girl with superficial desires, she places great value on the superfluous, such as physical appearance and drama, often making statements such as: "I know perfectly well that I look rather insignificant after my German lesson" (21), and "I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much” (22), and “I've never met any truly evil people before. I'm so afraid he'll be like everyone else” (24), and “Oh, I don't think I'd care to catch. a sensible man. I wouldn't know what to talk to him about” (25). Likewise, when he finally sees Ernest, who is actually Algernon Bunburying as Jack's little brother, he immediately falls in love, but his reasons for falling in love are as superfluous as they are. his fetishistic desires
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