Character of love

I put some of my favorite literary heroines from Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines into love categories…since V-day is coming up. Which literary heroine can you relate with the most when it comes to love? Do you feel adored? Scorned? Do you pine?

Lover

Emma Bovary
Nora Charles
Juliet Capulet

Piner
Catherine Earnshaw
Jane Eyre

Heart broken and scorned
Esther Greenwood

Love thy self
Nora Helmer
Daisy Miller
Lorelei Lee
Antigone

Believer in love
Nancy

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