She's a low-class simpleton who looks good in a bikini.....that's it. The way she very nasally shrieks "Shalimar" says it all.
I'm not saying Sandy Dennis' character was any prize...I know she had become a bore. BUT, the Ginny character seemed to have no education or depth or skills (a flight attendant) whatsoever.
Maybe Ginny came across as an uneducated simpleton in that setting, but I remember the one scene where Kate starts laughing at Danny for being afraid of putting on his undershorts, and Ginny says softly, "Don't laugh at him." Then in the kitchen Kate says to Ginny something like "Don't talk about what you don't understand." At least in those two scenes, Ginny comes across as kind, Kate as insensitive.
shareI don’t get the impression she’s a low-class simpleton, and don’t think she’s written that way either. Her soliloquy at the end - smart and pointed - is one of my favorite moments from the film.
shareI disliked Ginny at first, but she really grew on me at the end and I gained more sympathy for her. She just wanted to belong with everyone else in the group and was trying her best to be considerate and kind, only to get it all thrown back in her face because they saw her as a replacement for Anne.
Ginny is also much younger than the other characters, which may be why she comes across as comparatively naive--- or as you put it, a simpleton.
She came off as kind of clueless, but she was still too good for Nick. He was awful.
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