[ SECRET POST #2352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2352 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I see this SO much. I don't so much see 'hate' for her, as I do people saying she's a flat, unconvincing character from a criticism POV. But one of the things I absolutely loved about the novels was that she has all this awful, AWFUL shit happen to her and she actually has a natural emotional reaction. She has a mental breakdown. It happens so often in fiction that people have all this stuff happen that would incapacitate most real life people and they just brush it off like they stubbed a toe. She can be cold and unfeeling sometimes, because she NEEDS to be: she wouldn't survive in this world without it. But her love for her sister is the catalyst for the whole novel.

It is a bit like she can't win. Either she's a bitch for being unfeeling and cold or she's weak for realistically breaking down after being traumatised multiple times. Sigh. I do have problems with stuff in the novel (the stuff about how she doesn't deserve Peeta and he's sooo much better, gag me) but this wasn't one of them.

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+1000

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The thing is that it's not usually done in part *because* it's hard to write and have it be interesting, particularly in first person [which is already a hard perspective to write from]. Those together are already pretty damning for the main character, and that's before you add in that female characters start out at a disadvantage, sadly.

That combined with the fact that the book itself wasn't the best written thing means that yeah. Katniss isn't going to be a character that most people can relate to and/or like.

[(Anonymous)]

op here - that's exactly why she spoke to me so much as a character. I had a really traumatic childhood and my eventual development as a response to it is that I'm apparently perceives as 'flat' and 'cold'. When I was 15 I was diagnosed with schizophrenic because my doctors and parents thought my affect was too 'dead' and that I responded with a closed-off coldness that bordered on psycopathy. Eventually it was determined that no, I have PTSD and a thought disorder and bipolar II but that was a long fight and it has left me mistrustful of almost everyone. So Katniss was a bucket of cold water in so many ways because I saw myself in her, and also in people's response to her.