most disliked or irritating heroine?

[spendthrift]

On a similar basis to the most dire book you've finished, who are the heroines you have most disliked? Mine are: Emma in pole position, then Catherine Morland, Marianne and Eleanor (although I like Jane Austen - bizarre), the heroine of The Bell Jar, and Esther in Bleak House.

Fanny in Mansfield Park, Bella in Twilight.

Jane Eyre.

I think Mary is the real heroine in Mansfield Park.

Whats-her-face from Pride and Prejudice (that's how irritating she is, can't remember her bloody name. Or it could be that its 1am) - makes me want to slap her.

Cosette in Les Miserables - what a useless sap.

To bring it down to literature lite:

Nicci French's female protagonists are awful.

Scarpetta in the Patricia Cornwell books -just so smug I wanted to punch her. The first book was pretty engaging, after about 6 books the character was irritating the hell out of me and the plot was totally by numbers.

Also the annoying niece who just happened to have recently acquired a new skill/job etc that is coincidentally vital to the case Scarpetta is currently working on

Bridget Fecking jones

Fucking Cathy

I meant each book plot was by numbers.

I kept going with them up until Blowfly when I totally snapped and actually did throw the book across the room. They all went to my grandad to take to the pensioners club - I felt guilty inflicting them on the elderly!

Oh! And she kept bringing people back from the bloody dead to suit her story. Bloody lazy writing.

Yes, Cathy! Grr

Oh I got so sick of the Scarpetta novels!!! I let a number of years go by before I read the most recent one, Port Mortuary. What. A. Piece. Of. Crap!!!!!!!!!!!

yes, it all went downhill after she brought that character back from the dead. I just about coped with the being stalked by serial killers from previous books plots but that was the end for me with Scarpetta!

Bella Swan

Read twilight to
Try and understand the hype and she made me feel physically sick.

Scarlett O'Hara. What a thoroughly spoilt brat. She needed a really good slap for her selfish behaviour.

Bella whatever her name was.

Bella - for setting feminism back about 1000 years!

Fanny - Mansfield Park

Cathy - Wuthering Heights (though are we supposed to hate her?)

Becky Bloomfield from the Shopoholic Series...funny in the first one, painful by the last!

I'm with you on Emma, OP. Especially as interpreted by Gwynnie, but anyway. Bossyboots.

I kind of like Esther, but I suppose she is a bit wet, and what's with the dear darling Ada when she's only known her for 5 minutes?

I'm not mad about Emma Bovary.

Who is Bella?

Bridget Jones.

The Shopaholic woman. Made me want to stick pins intoy eyes.

midnightexpress from Twilight series! :)

Intoy eyes should have read, into my eyes.

Ah I see. Why is she annoying then and what has she done to set back feminism so dreadfully (have never read or seen - old gimmer)?

Well, it's just my humble opinion but a few examples:

Though she has full use of her legs, she seems to require a lot of carrying around, literally!

She has no friends outside of her vampire boyfriend and his vampire family, aside from her werewolf friend who she is also half in love with (so not really a friend, more another male to obsess about).

She allows this vampire boyfriend (and occasionally werewolf friend) to control every single, solitary aspect of her life.

Her main goal in life is to be bitten by said vampire so that she too can be a vampire and spend eternity being controlled by him.

It's all very creepy and she's a moron!

I agree about Emma B as well as hating Emma Woodhouse. How could I have forgotten that I just want to slap Scarlett O'Hara. I've never been able to stomach Little Dorrit also Little Nell or whatever is the name of the girl who clutters up graveyards. DSis says old Betty whatshername in Our Mutual Friend who goes off to die ever so gallantly taking her wares around the country.

SirBoob - do you mean Elizabeth? She's too arch at the beginning, I agree, but I think she improves.

And how could I have forgotten Anna Karenina? She gets on my nerves too.