"She grinned and I saw why she made a point of not laughing. With her mouth closed she was a rather pretty girl." -pg. 23
I don't know why Georgette was even in the book. She was only there for a little while, and she had no qualities to add complexity or a new angle. It didn't seem like anyone even cared that she was a prostitute. She was a funny character but only because she had bad teeth and Jake made fun of them. Her entrance into the novel shows how open everyone was, willing to accept a new person into their pack. It also shows how shallow all of their connections. They were just as friendly with the new girl as they were with their old pals. She fell in and out of the picture without so much as a ripple from the main characters.
I like your point about it revealing their shallow natures.
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