Eve Dallas musings
May. 29th, 2008 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixen So I've been listening to my collection of Eve Dallas on CD. I picked up Born in Death, unabridged on CD for under ten bucks, so that's the one up now. And I've been thinking.
Eve is a relative of Mary Sue. I don't think anyone disputes this. I mean, I love the books, and the characters are fab, but... Mary Sue alarms. The books, however, are well-done enough that I don't mind, and because Eve is getting rid of some of her issues in a logical pattern.
However, I don't think she's NR's actual character insertion.
I think that's supposed to be Dr. Mira. The closest thing Eve has to a mother figure. She gets to get inside everyone's head, and she usually provides Eve with needed shoves.
Any thoughts?
DV
Eve is a relative of Mary Sue. I don't think anyone disputes this. I mean, I love the books, and the characters are fab, but... Mary Sue alarms. The books, however, are well-done enough that I don't mind, and because Eve is getting rid of some of her issues in a logical pattern.
However, I don't think she's NR's actual character insertion.
I think that's supposed to be Dr. Mira. The closest thing Eve has to a mother figure. She gets to get inside everyone's head, and she usually provides Eve with needed shoves.
Any thoughts?
DV
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Re: Mary Sue Dallas?
Date: 2008-05-30 02:09 pm (UTC)Well, the reason Roarke uses only one name is that if people called him Mr. Roarke it would be too obvious that he exists to fulfill the reader's every fantasy.
ROFLMAO!
Like I said, she's sort of growing out of some of the Mary Sue.
Are you thinking of the crisis over the money? "Did we just compromise?"
I know they're not good, but they're so much fun...
DV