17 years old
Girlfriend of Bennet
Comes from a very rich and upper class family
Cissy has an overwhelming need to be good at everything, especially school. There is a massive pressure on her from her parents to do well and be successful and I think having a boyfriend like Bennet is part of the package. To Cissy's parents Bennet seems like a nice boy, from a wealthy family, who is likely to do well in life and be a suitable suiter for her, but in real life he is a spiteful and mean person. Bennet makes fun of other people's misfortunes and insecurities to draw away from his own secrets. He is secretly gay and is with Cissy to try and cover this up, which Cissy knows. Throughout the play there are many references to Bennet being gay, "......I think there relationship is more of a mutual agreement to keep them both popular and everyone else happy, even though they haven't spoken about it outright they both know that they need each other.
There is a lot of pressure on Cissy to do well as I mentioned before, she needs good grades to get into a good uni as she can not rely on her parents just paying her way. This is shown when she talks about how she's never going to leave Stockport and she is basically going to fail in everything, as if her life depends solely on her getting A's. Her parents expect a hell of a lot from her, nothing but A's, and would be thoroughly disappointed in her if she faultered, hence why she is so upset when she gets a B in English. She is genuinely scared of her parents as she doesn't know how far they will go if she ever messes up because she hasn't previously, so she is even more scared to do anything but the best.
Cissy has to be part of the 'popular group' and wants to be top girl in the school. When she first meets Lily she is slightly wary of her because she is a threat to her popularity and even on the first day seems to be liked by all of her friends. She decides that the best way to protect herself is by becoming good friends with her and so let's her join her girl group of Tristan and her. Cissy values Tristan's friendship more than she lets on, really she would like to defend her when it comes to Bennet but she knows it will be worse for her if she goes against Bennet so she just keeps quiet and tries to play it off as a joke.
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