Doomed

Lily seems like such a doomed character. She just seems so hopeless. She is gradually “growing more sensitive to criticism and less confident in her power of disarming it” (132). “She had a fatalistic sense of being drawn from one wrong turning to another without ever perceiving the right road till it was too late to take it” (129). It seems like this novel is not going to end well. Ms. French seems to be setting her main character up for devastating loss or failure. I almost want to stop reading and not get too attached to Lily – she seems doomed.