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"She was now convinced that he meant to distinguish her, that he meant to mark his admiration in a noticeable way; and it began to appear probable that she would have it in her power to reject him, whence there was a pleasure in reckoning up the advantages which would make her rejection splendid, and in giving Mr. Grandcourt his utmost value."-p.129.
— Dec 27, 2021 07:42PM
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There is a recurring theme of wishing to elicit desire from others, just for thrill of power one gets from denying them. Gwendolyn wants men to desire her just so that she has the power to reject them. Mr.Grandcourt wants his uncle to desire his home just so that he has the power to reject his offer to buy it. This book is saying something about the sense of identity that comes from being the one to deny others
— Dec 29, 2021 07:50PM
Jyvur Entropy
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Poor Rex. Gwendolyn is definitely a bit of a cunt to let all these dudes orbit her just to freaking yell at them when they admit their feelings. It's def very cruel that she enjoys knowing men are in love with her and lets them hang around like that.
— Dec 26, 2021 04:45PM
Jyvur Entropy
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Gwendolyn is a delightfully flawed main character. The entire book so far is a wonderfully nuanced character study
— Dec 26, 2021 08:21AM
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"Since she was not winning strikingly, the next best thing was to lose strikingly."-I feel this XD
So we have our intro to our main characters in this chapter. Gwendolyn is interesting and Deronda is...annoying. This is a criticism of the fictional man, not the writing. Some books call for annoying shithead characters. And wow, even in this brief introduction, does this dude strike me as a shithead.
— Dec 24, 2021 07:38PM
So we have our intro to our main characters in this chapter. Gwendolyn is interesting and Deronda is...annoying. This is a criticism of the fictional man, not the writing. Some books call for annoying shithead characters. And wow, even in this brief introduction, does this dude strike me as a shithead.
Although it isn't always women who do this. A man did this to me once. It's an incredibly evil and malicious thing to do to someone else, to raise their hopes and dash them, for that fleeting sense of power. I'll never understand that: to do something so hurtful to someone else, for so small a reward in return.
And of course, then the person who was encouraged just to be rejected can't even really get upset over it. Because then it can just be spun as "They're only mad they were rejected."
Well the evil people who do this sort of thing-the Gwendolyns of the world-in their evil little hearts, they know what they've done. I'm sure there's a fair bit of cognitive dissonance, because nobody-no matter what they've done-can be the bad guy in their own head. It's too difficult to live with knowing you're a bad person who hurt someone for the fun of it. So I'm sure all kinds of justification goes into it: 'I didn't even really do anything' 'They're making a big deal out of nothing' 'they deserved it' whatever it is they tell themselves. But somewhere deep down, they know exactly what they are and it's why they can only feel power in this uniquely feminine manipulation and hurt. They need to feel that they have the power to hurt others because it makes them feel bigger than they are.
Gwendolyn is a truly despicable person. George Elliot has written an absolutely masterful depiction of a despicable human being.