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Ok, this book has some seriously annoying characters in it! Am I right? I mean Sir Walter, Elizabeth, and Mary, are all so utterly horrible people! urgh, I couldn't stand them! Anyone else feel differently or have a different comment on any of the other characters? How did everyone feel about Anne?

I agree. They were a pompous bunch except for Anne. Her family and friend destroyed her relationship with a good man. Fortunately, he was able to recognize the power her family had over her, and they could then reconcile.

Pam wrote: "I agree. They were a pompous bunch except for Anne. Her family and friend destroyed her relationship with a good man. Fortunately, he was able to recognize the power her family had over her, and..."

I feel like Sir Walter and Elizabeth had to admit that they totally put there foot in it at the end and I love the fact that Elizabeth was totally snubbed and left single! Like it was the just desserts and how Sir Walter was still broke and now Captain Wentworth (and thereby Anne as well) were fall wealthier than him!

I felt Anne was likeable insofar as the person she was was very honorable, etc, but too much of a pushover, which drives me crazy in people. They both could have been happy years earlier if they'd just been honest with each other!

Alana wrote: "I felt Anne was likeable insofar as the person she was was very honorable, etc, but too much of a pushover, which drives me crazy in people. They both could have been happy years earlier if they'd ..."

Yes, Anne was a quite the pushover, but only, I think, by Lady Russel. I mean yes her father wasn't happy with the match before, but wit was really Lady Russel who Anne saw as a mother figure that convince Anne that Captain Wentworth would not make a decent match. Don't get me wrong, she is definitely a pushover, but I think that if Lady Russel hadn't disapproved than Anne would have just gone on with the engagement in her younger years. What do you think?

Maybe so, but I guess I just find it extremely difficult to believe that she really hung on to the idea of him for the next seven years. I mean, it's all romantic in books like the Notebook and all that, but seriously, a lot happens in seven years. Do we really believe that she never wavered in her devotion? Or is it more likely that no other prospects came her way in that time?

Alana wrote: "Maybe so, but I guess I just find it extremely difficult to believe that she really hung on to the idea of him for the next seven years. I mean, it's all romantic in books like the Notebook and all..."

Good question, especially if she was supposed to be so pretty as is made out to be in the book. But at the same time, she did had Charles Musgrove longing for her affections but he ended up with her younger sister, so maybe Austen put Musgrove is as a way to show how her affections did not waiver. ( I have never read the notebook or seen the movie, and I probably never will, lol!)