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Fictional characters who could have done with a good talking to

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MmeLindor · 29/06/2015 21:15

Reading this this blog today and thinking that I would have included Donna Moss.

Donna could have done with realising that she was more than just a secretary, or admin assistant. By the end of Season 7, she'd escaped Josh's office and snagged herself a fab job, but wish it hadn't taken so long! Typical scene - in the CJ interview, where she says 'oh, but what do I know', I wanted to give her a good shake.

Who would you include?

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MmeLindor · 29/06/2015 21:36

Talc
I had to stop reading Tess.

Carrie isn't lowering the tone. I started with Donna Moss!

I'm going to add whatsername from Dirty Dancing. She needed to say 'My name is FRANCES, not baby'.

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Stitchintime1 · 29/06/2015 21:36

Emma Bovary. As the young people say, she thought she was all that.

ChocolateBreakfastBalls · 29/06/2015 21:36

Peppa fucking Pig. No you cannot wear your new shoes in the fucking bath you little brat.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 29/06/2015 21:35

Oh yeah, and Dorothea Brooke. Stop being so overimpressed by Casaubon - you're making a BIG mistake...

snowglobemouse · 29/06/2015 21:33

Carrie Bradshaw (lowering the tone). bitch needed TOLD though

FunkyPeacock · 29/06/2015 21:32

I have just read The Mill on The Floss (highly recommended & free on Kindle)

I really wanted to tell Maggie Tulliver to stop punishing herself, elope with Stephen & sod the consequences!

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 29/06/2015 21:31

Hear hear Talc !

TalcAndTurnips · 29/06/2015 21:29

Angel Clare - how dare he judge and then shun Tess Durbeyfield for her sexual past (which was an act of rape) when he himself had entered into a relationship with a woman outside of marriage?

I remember being so angry when I first read this scene. His double standards and her agony were almost unbearable. Poor, downtrodden Tess.

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MmeLindor · 29/06/2015 21:28

Lamppost
Ha! I love that you ranted about Cathy. I read that when I was in my late teens and ranted all the way through the book.

Countess
I still haven't read Secret Garden. I don't know how I've managed that!

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 29/06/2015 21:25

Garnie in Ballet Shoes and Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden.

LamppostInWinter · 29/06/2015 21:21

Cathy Earnshaw/Linton in Wuthering Heights. My A-Level English Lit paper was a lengthy rant on how most of her troubles were due to her being a spoilt brat. Luckily the examiner agreed with me!