conventionally speaking Lizzie should be loving Headstone, and not the lazy, indolent Wrayburn, but the girl has good instincts
Yes - and I loved Lizzie for it - both for being attracted to Eugene (however horrifying that was for her) and unattracted to Bradley Headstone.
I think if I remember correctly Wrayburn is the only upperclass Dickens cad who gets to live and gets the girl at the end.
Well, one of the few. There's Charles Darnay. I can't think of another one offhand... Maybe a few hours from now, other names will leap into my head. It's rare in his books, and one of the reasons I love Our Mutual Friend so much. It's so anti-classist, in its intelligent, inverted way.
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Date: 2007-03-16 11:00 pm (UTC)Yes - and I loved Lizzie for it - both for being attracted to Eugene (however horrifying that was for her) and unattracted to Bradley Headstone.
I think if I remember correctly Wrayburn is the only upperclass Dickens cad who gets to live and gets the girl at the end.
Well, one of the few. There's Charles Darnay. I can't think of another one offhand... Maybe a few hours from now, other names will leap into my head. It's rare in his books, and one of the reasons I love Our Mutual Friend so much. It's so anti-classist, in its intelligent, inverted way.