Serious Money (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Caryl Churchill
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Play
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The mid-1980’s
- Setting: England and New York
- Genres: Satire, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Politics, Murder or homicide, 1980’s, England or English people, Greed, London, Ethics, Business or business people, Money, Wall Street, Stocks, Corporations, Finance, Stock exchange
- Locales: New York, England
Characters Discussed
Scilla Todd, a London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE) dealer, a job that is out of keeping with her sex and her upbringing. An initially caring but also highly ambitious young woman, she undertakes a quest to find Jake’s murderer that ends in her corruption; she becomes greedy, amoral, and cunning. She is a victim of a paternalistic and capitalistic British society in which gender and class lines are being challenged in ways that promise a future that is even bleaker, devoid of any sense of morality or responsibility toward others. She...
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