Do Jamie and Paul lie often?
Jamie is fluent in lying as the occasion demands. Paul is constantly amazed at her imagination and effectiveness (“You are so good, it scares me!”) [1.10, 1.14, 2.24]. She lied her way into Paul’s heart with a earthquake-and-her-parents’-obituaries story when they first met, all to wangle the last copy of Sunday Times from him [1.11]. A more interesting lie concerns Jamie’s middle name [3.11] — just how she signed her marriage certificate is anyone’s guess! Paul, on the other hand, is extremely uncomfortable telling lies, even when trying to retrieve his own tape from the premises of CineGroup Films [2.10]. Significant exceptions are [2.14], where everyone lies to everyone else with abandon, while at the Caribbean resort [3.18], Paul doesn’t quite match Jamie lie for lie, but comes awfully close.
