The Day of the Locust | Faye Greener

Faye Greener is a seventeen-year-old aspiring actress who lives one floor below Tod at the San Bernardino Arms with her father, Harry. She admits that, even though Tod is nice, she will not go out with him because he is neither rich nor good-looking. Faye is tall with "platinum" hair. She drives Harry around in her Model-T car and participates in his "act" during his sales calls. Faye occasionally takes a job as an extra in movies, but she is convinced that she is just moments away from becoming a huge star. She works as a whore for a brief period to pay off her father's funeral...

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