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consumerist economy where there is competition to be the newest, thinnest,
best-looking models that men will pick, there will always be denigration of the
“inferior brands,” i.e. fat and therefore ugly women, and the obese women will
be jealous of the superior models, i.e. the thin and therefore beautiful women.
Green informs the reader that when Jemima receives some of the sexual
attention which Geraldine is used to getting, Geraldine “if she hadn’t been going
out with Nick Maxwell ... would have been green with jealousy” (Green 175).
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