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艾米丽亚的哥哥回来后

认识到自己当年的错误

最终和贝姬走到了一起

[edit] Becky Sharp

The heroine, or more correctly the anti-heroine, is an intelligent young woman with a gift for

satire. She is described as a petite sandy haired girl who has green eyes and a great deal of wit.

Fluent in both French and English, Becky has a beautiful singing voice, plays the piano, and shows

great talent as an actress. She is also completely amoral and without conscience. She does not

seem to have the ability to get attached to other people, and lies easily and intelligently to get

her way. She is extremely manipulative and, after the first few chapters and her failure to attract

Jos Sedley, is not shown as being particularly sincere.

Never

having known

financial

or

social

security even

as

a

child, Becky

desires

it

above all

things. Nearly everything she does is with the intention of securing a stable position for herself,

or herself and her husband after she and Rawdon are married. She advances Rawdon's interests

tirelessly, flirting with men such as General Tufto and the Marquess of Steyne in order to get him

promoted. She also uses her feminine wiles to distract men at card parties while Rawdon cheats

them blind.

Marrying Rawdon

Crawley

in

secret

was

a

mistake,

as was

running

off

instead

of begging

Miss Crawley's forgiveness. She also fails to manipulate Miss Crawley through Rawdon so as to

obtain

an

inheritance.

Although

Becky

manipulates

men

very

easily,

she

does

not

even

try

to

cultivate the friendship of most women. Lady Jane, the Dobbin sisters, and Lady Steyne see right

through her. Amelia and (initially) Miss Crawley are exceptions to the rule.

[edit] Amelia Sedley

Amelia is Becky's opposite: pale, passive, and emotionally devoted to her husband and son.

She marries George Osborne against the wishes of George's father, and when George dies at the

battle

of

Waterloo

she

brings

up

little

George

alone

while

living

with

her

parents.

She

is

completely

dominated

by

her

spendthrift

father

(who

steals

and

sells

the

annuity

George's

friends put together to try to support her) and her mother.

After George Osborne's death, Amelia is obsessed with her son and with the memory of her

husband.

She

ignores

William

Dobbin,

who

courts

her

for

years,

and

treats

him

shabbily

until

eventually he leaves. It is only after Becky shows her George's letter to her that Amelia realizes

what a good man Dobbin is, although she has already written to him to ask him to come back.

She eventually marries Dobbin.

[edit] Rawdon Crawley

Rawdon, the younger of the two Crawley sons, is an empty-headed cavalry officer who is his

wealthy aunt's favorite until he marries Becky Sharp, who is of a far lower class. He permanently

alienates his aunt, who leaves her estate to Sir Pitt instead. Sir Pitt has by this time inherited their

father's estate, leaving Rawdon quite poor.