We've read six books this semester. Just six books in a thirteen week period. We should know these characters backwards and forwards. I started to think about who my favorite character was from one of the novels, and I decided that I couldn't choose between Jane Eyre and Ruth Hall.
Both characters are strong women from humble beginnings. They have many terrible things that happen to them through their lives. Despite hardship, both characters have happy endings, and the readers actually wish that for them. For the most part, the characters don't whine about the bad things in their lives. Both women get up and respond to the situations placed before them.
I wondered if anyone else had a favorite character? Were you able to narrow it down to just one?
I liked the narrator in Middlemarch, at moments in which she described Celia's misunderstanding of Casaubon's intelligence as a "pervasive dampness," which seeps into the surrounding environment, like wet laundry in a basement and Lydgate's weak intention to say unmarried compared to Rosamond's single minded drive to marry him, as "a jellyfish ready to be dried up in the sun."
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I also really like Jane and Ruth, but I get a kick out of Topsy, too. And Dorothea. And Mary Garth. And Lydgate...well, obviously, I could go on and on!
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