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A fascinatingly thorough pre-DSM-V case study of a female sociopath. Thackeray would have made a fine diagnostician.
However, though Rebecka's character in deed is ghastly realistically portrayed, and consistent with the behavior of someone whose life is a constant project of hustling, I found the predictability of the other inhabitants of Vanity Fair a little tiresome. Though I am sure that is just the moral of the story, a couple of hundred pages less of whining about the behavior of the genti ...more
However, though Rebecka's character in deed is ghastly realistically portrayed, and consistent with the behavior of someone whose life is a constant project of hustling, I found the predictability of the other inhabitants of Vanity Fair a little tiresome. Though I am sure that is just the moral of the story, a couple of hundred pages less of whining about the behavior of the genti ...more
I enjoyed reading this book. I was torn between whom to hate and who to feel pity for. I pity Rebecca because she wants to rise in the world and for a woman in that period marriage was it. I disliked her because of her methods. I pity Amelia because of her naivete and disliked her for her lack of fire and character.
Oct 13, 2007
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