[ SECRET POST #2588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2588 ⌋

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Comments

[siofrabunnies]

Related, everyone harps on Bella getting all emo when Edward leaves. Granted, ideally, you mope a bit then move on with your life. But she always read to me as being fairly depressed before she moved to Forks, then she met Edward, who made her happier, then he left. When you're depressed, losing someone's presence in you life can be devastating. I thought the ten blank pages thing was actually really well done.

Granted again, neither of them are very mature people, but I don't think they were any worse than any other two random teenagers. I mean, it's Edward's first ever romantic relationship. He's allowed to screw up, as long as he gets better. And, like I said above, Bella seems to have a tendency toward being depressed.

[(Anonymous)]

If it was meant to be depression, it's an insult to this girl WITH depression. It reads like the stereotyped to hell and inaccurate portrayal of it.

[siofrabunnies]

I don't mean to be argumentative or dismissive, but I have to disagree. I'm not certain if it was meant to be depression, but the story reminds me of my own experience with it. I mean, Meyer's certainly not the greatest at handling subjects with grace, but she got it pretty close to how I deal with my down swings, or at least how I handled them when I was a teenager.

[(Anonymous)]

Your depression is not everyone's. Because to *this* girl with depression, it felt horrifically real.

[siofrabunnies]

I'm not sure if you're the anon I replied to, because you seem to be agreeing with me. I'm aware my issues aren't anyone else's, but I don't like the implication in this post that I'm just an outside observer to depression, because I'm absolutely not. I also don't like the implication that I should be offended or insulted, especially when I feel like the portrayal was dead on, even if it was stereotyped.

[(Anonymous)]

Bella's immaturity would be far less annoying if she were being set up as a teenage everygirl who has a lot of growing up to do, but Meyer keeps harping on about how she's supposedly so very different and special, not like those other shallow, immature girls, and how she's the responsible one, the adult, in her relationship with her mom. To me, that was what made her immaturity irritating: what we were told was so at odds with what we were shown.

Case in point: she's so busy feeling sorry for herself, all through her first two (or is it three?) days in Forks, that she doesn't even think to call Renee or shoot her an email to say that she arrived safely. When she finally checks her email and finds twenty or so frantic messages from Renee, the reply she fires off is really snotty--and she doesn't even apologize. Hardly the behavior of the "adult" in the relationship, if you ask me--and that's when I knew I was going to hate Bella.

[siofrabunnies]

That's a really good point. I suppose it's been quite a while since I read the books. I do remember being irritated at all the "tell, don't show" Meyer does.