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Sophie has been portrayed as a central character in the story ‘Going Places’. She represents the girls of her age from poor families. As in reality they can’t have the things they want, they dream about them. Sophie always lives in her dreams. She makes up the story of meeting Danny Casey, a young charming and upcoming footballer. Nobody believes her but she refuses to accept that it is her dream.
Rather, she starts believing that she has met him. To show that she is telling the truth, she makes up another story that she has fixed a date with him. She is so lost in her dream that she actually goes to the canal and waits for him. He does not show up. Her dreams have become an integral part of her life, and she cannot distinguish between her world of imagination and the real world.