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.

Stephanie Plum - but only when she is dithering over Morelli or Ranger. I want to slap her. She should obviously choose to jump Rangers bones.

Seasalt, i agree - but is Mary the alter ego of what Elizabeth Bennet would have turned into?

I hate Scarpetta too! Like others I kept reading as somehow I expected them to get better but they didn't.

I read a Marian Keyes book which I thought was a bit "lite" but ok, when I started another one on holiday I thought I'd accidentally picked up the first one again. Her books are all fecking identical!

No Tiger she has jumped Ranger's bones. Now she needs to get it out of her system and settle down with Morelli. :)

Who could really chose between Ranger and Morelli?

Irritating heroines - I agree with:

Cathy
Jane Eyre
Fanny (Mansfield Park not Hill)
Emma Bovary
Bella
Anna Karenina

One of the women in Dracula made me want to scream - Mimi? Can't remember now.

I quite like Scarlett O'Hara - they'd have starved/been murdered without her although she's a shocking mother (in the book).

Me. I could choose. Mmmmmmmmmmmmorelli any day of the week :o

And yes I despise Bella. I like Twilight ok, but not her.

I loathe fanny in Mansfield Park. I liked Billy Piper's more feisty version of her but in the book she's so dreary and good.

You see, I know I should choose Morelli (and these days I probably would/ might) Ranger just has more appeal.

Not strictly literature (at all) but the bloody lead in La Boheme (is that another Mimi?). I just want to slap her. All that withering about her tiny hand being frozen? You're a seamstress, Love - make yourself some gloves...

Withering? I meant wittering...

Bridget Jones in the second novel - in the first one, where you're supposed to laugh at the silly twat, she's very entertaining. In the second one, when the author, whose name I have now forgotten, has fallen for her own publicity and started believing that her idiotic, self-obsessed loser of a character is some kind of female role model, it's unbearable.

VI Warshawski in some of the earlier books - that's not a chip on her shoulder it's a fucking Big Mac Meal. Though from about Tunnel Vision onwards they get massively better.

Yep she jumped Rangers bones and she should keep on jumping his bones

Obviously I would choose Morelli Mon - Friday and Ranger for the weekends

Re. Mansfield Park, even Jane Austen said Fanny was a heroine only her creator could love...

I can't stand Mme Bovary and Anna Karenina. Women (written by men) who just give up. Should have a Terminator style makeover where they blast all the repellent men who get them into so much trouble with laser bazookas or something.

(in case any English teachers or professors of literature turn up, I do know I'm looking at 19th Century fiction with modern sensibility and all that but there were still some strong women in ye olden days...)

Edam - I agree - or if they don't give up, they become Mme Defarge or that woman who befriends Tattycoram, go completely soppy like Dorothea falling in love with wimpish Will after creepy Casaubon.. or lead an Evil Life and Repent of it for Evermore, like Gwendolen. And GE should have known better..

Nothing new here! 1/ Bella Swan just makes my fucking teeth bleed!
2/ Cathy. Talk about a slightly mental, obsessive, drama queen! And what makes me really annoyed?... Im named after the daft trout!

Sue from Jude the Obscure. Just awful and melodramatic.

Val from The Womans' Room by Marilyn French. Don't know why but she just annoys me (not quite the heroine but a main character).

The Robin in the Chalet School. I just want to slap her.

Bella Swan = wallpaper.

Irritating beyond belief. Can't believe I forced myself to swallow all of those absolutely cringeworthy books.

Definitely Bella from Twilight, and the whole second book focused on her. Plus Kirsten Whatsherface who plays her in the film is just as grating.