Detestable Literary Characters Who Are Not Technically Villains
Reverend Dimmesdale (The Scarlet Letter)
We can admire Hester for taking her lumps in silence and refusing to name her lover, but she wouldn’t have had to be such a martyr if that coward of the cloth Dimmesdale could have admitted to their community, and to Hester’s obsessively vengeful husband, that he played a co-equal role in the Terrible—and Terribly Hot—Sex that Destroyed Everything (and produced the awesome Pearl).
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Daisy was a pill.
Yes and not the “happy, joy, joy” kind of pill. 🙂
I have always thought that Wuthering Heights has some unusual characters.
Rhett, I couldn’t agree more!