Two-faced Ruth

The more I read about Ruth, the more I can't stand her!  Everything about her is shallow, petty, and two-faced, and I can't understand how or why anyone would want to be friends with her.  For one thing, she is annoyingly condescending to Kathy.  "So that's it, that's what's upsetting poor little Kathy.  Ruth isn't paying enough attention to her..." (Ishiguro, 124).  She is a social climber who only treats Kathy well when she can get something out of it.  Kathy even acknowledges the fact that Ruth is a two-faced person.  "There was one Ruth who was always trying to impress the veterans, who wouldn't hesitate to ignore me, Tommy, any of the others, if she thought we'd cramp her style...But the Ruth who sat beside me in my little attic room...that was the Ruth from Hailsham" (Ishiguro, 129).  There is someone in my life that is scarily similar to Ruth's characteristics.  The difference between me and Kathy, though, is that I don't sit aside and let someone treat me like dirt.  I hope Kathy eventually goes off on Kathy for her shallowness.