y, for it is entirely manufactured out of thin air, and deals with a man who she has never met, but has only heard lies about from Jack---lies which concern a man who does not even exist in the first place.
In fact, the diary, as we shall learn, does contain some accounts based in reality, just as the play, with all its farce and nonsense, contains some connection to reality. Just as Wilde skewers society's pretensions and deceptions by exaggerating them, so does Cecily's diary skewer the romanticized notion of love among the upper crust in her diary.
Miss Prism goes on in the same scene to say that Cecily's diary is unnecessary because "Memory . . . is the diary that we all carry about with us," and Cecily responds, "Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn't possibl
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