Does anyone else find the saintly Dorothea an incredibly rude snob? I've disliked her character from the start. She criticizes her sister for wanting to wear their mother's jewelry and calls the puppy Sir James tries to give her "parasitic." Whe she sees the portrait of Julia-Will's grandmother and Mr. Casaubon's aunt-she says Julia has a "peculiar" face. She has an incredible knack for belittleling everybody else's interests or hobbies because they not self-sacraficing enough.
Okay, I'm done. I'm only half-way through the book. I rented the BBC adaptation which helped make the story arcs clearer.
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He he, yeah... I have that DVD on my bookshelf right now. I have NEVER been so grateful for a randomly chosen birthday gift in my life. How providential that, because I liked one BBC adaptation a friend gave me, he'd decide to give me just the one I would need a year later.
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned after class, I did find that I warmed to her pretty quickly after she was married, though. She's just so very YOUNG in the beginning, always letting her tongue run with her passing moods. I can relate to that :P
I took it as insecurity, at least in part. Sometimes people criticize others or dislike certain things because, in reality, they see those things in themselves and try to prove otherwise.
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