"So, yes, I still maintain that Patch is Fitzpatrick’s avatar, not Nora. Patch is the one who has everything go his way, just like Fitzpatrick does because she’s the author. Fitzpatrick wants Nora to be frightened, hurt, isolated, and alone, just like Patch wants Nora to be frightened, hurt, isolated and alone, so she’ll remove any possible supportive character in the story, whether by forgetting about them or butchering their characterization.
Nora is supposed to be her heroine. She’s supposed to be the protagonist. And yet Fitzpatrick seems to take as much perverse delight in tormenting her and isolating her as Patch does. No wonder Patch is invincible. Not only does he have unstoppable powers, he’s even got his author on his side. Half the time, he doesn’t even need to do anything; his author does his job for him."
This. Patch is Fitzpatrick having her cake and eating it too. He's the dream guy she wanted to date in high school, and he has all of the power.
Nora's author-induced passivity just is getting uncomfortable to read, I swear. It's one thing to read about a character like Charlie Brown, who constantly has terrible things happen, but at least tried his hardest to fight against the odds. It's like Nora has a split personality. One half of her desperately WANTS to fight back and come out on top, while the other half is happy with her being spineless and helpless, letting others take advantage of her.
In particular, there's an upcoming scene where Marcie is once again mocking Nora, forcing her to do something humiliating with the threat of getting her in trouble with an authority figure otherwise. There are many, many ways Nora could legitimately get out of listening to Marcie (Marcie is threatening to get Nora in trouble over not doing an assigned job, even though Marcie's request ISN'T a part of Nora's duties), but Nora never even considers any of them as possibilities. She just wibbles and mentally cries and goes through with it. And it's just horrible to watch, not in a way that makes you empathize with her, but because it's just uncomfortable to watch. She's not even *trying* to get herself out of the situation, even though she obviously hates it!
That's not even going into what happens near the end of this pile of crap. Oh no. No, not at all. NOT AT ALL. That is, in my opinion, where this all reaches its PEAK of having Nora be shat on, by making AN ENTIRE PUBLIC AREA FULL OF PEOPLE be callous and unfeeling and willfully ignorant of a seriously plight she's in. IT'S DISGUSTING.
And heck, this isn't even like Meyer's fantasies of Edward jumping in from On High to protect Dearest Bella from her own idiocy, because half of the time, Patch DOESN'T help her out! He's fine with joining in on shitting on her! I don't' GET this! *pulls at hair*
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Nora is supposed to be her heroine. She’s supposed to be the protagonist. And yet Fitzpatrick seems to take as much perverse delight in tormenting her and isolating her as Patch does. No wonder Patch is invincible. Not only does he have unstoppable powers, he’s even got his author on his side. Half the time, he doesn’t even need to do anything; his author does his job for him."
This. Patch is Fitzpatrick having her cake and eating it too. He's the dream guy she wanted to date in high school, and he has all of the power.
Nora's author-induced passivity just is getting uncomfortable to read, I swear. It's one thing to read about a character like Charlie Brown, who constantly has terrible things happen, but at least tried his hardest to fight against the odds. It's like Nora has a split personality. One half of her desperately WANTS to fight back and come out on top, while the other half is happy with her being spineless and helpless, letting others take advantage of her.
In particular, there's an upcoming scene where Marcie is once again mocking Nora, forcing her to do something humiliating with the threat of getting her in trouble with an authority figure otherwise. There are many, many ways Nora could legitimately get out of listening to Marcie (Marcie is threatening to get Nora in trouble over not doing an assigned job, even though Marcie's request ISN'T a part of Nora's duties), but Nora never even considers any of them as possibilities. She just wibbles and mentally cries and goes through with it. And it's just horrible to watch, not in a way that makes you empathize with her, but because it's just uncomfortable to watch. She's not even *trying* to get herself out of the situation, even though she obviously hates it!
That's not even going into what happens near the end of this pile of crap. Oh no. No, not at all. NOT AT ALL. That is, in my opinion, where this all reaches its PEAK of having Nora be shat on, by making AN ENTIRE PUBLIC AREA FULL OF PEOPLE be callous and unfeeling and willfully ignorant of a seriously plight she's in. IT'S DISGUSTING.
And heck, this isn't even like Meyer's fantasies of Edward jumping in from On High to protect Dearest Bella from her own idiocy, because half of the time, Patch DOESN'T help her out! He's fine with joining in on shitting on her! I don't' GET this! *pulls at hair*