Rawdon Crawley - is committed to living life at its fullest, and not one jot less. Strong-minded and willed, a terrible mother, but a battle-axe to those who take her head-on. Becky is perhaps not a woman easily liked, but she is an admirable woman, a tough woman, and a woman I can respect. I also learned through the course of the novel that I can't outright condemn Becky Sharp. If we care to, we can learn to become better parents, better husbands, better wives, and better friends. This voice of reason grounds us makes us understand the joy, the pain, the happiness, and the sorrow that accompanies each of us in our journey through life. Vanity Fair is with us, all around us and many times we never fully understand the roles that the players play. It seemed that at every opportune moment, the narrator took a step back and informed us, the reader, of some nugget, some little moral, that placed the actions of the participants in the Fair in context. To me, the narrator's voice in the novel was most amazing. It is her methods that vary from what you and I might use or do they? She can't help it, and nor should she is she really any different than any of us? No, she's not. No, Miss Rebecca Sharp sprang from the womb enlivened with her desire to claw her way to the top.
This novel is not the coming of age, or bildungsroman, of Becky Sharp. The 'Hero' of Vanity Fair is the steadfast and stalwart William Dobbin of that there is no doubt. "Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero." I disagree with Thackeray. Here I am, 54 years old, and for the very first time reading William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
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