I didn’t really pay much attention to it until I began working on Project 1 and I realized—Bella and Edward really ARE meant to be! After reading Laura Miller’s article “Touched by a vampire” where critiqued the series, a lot of the things she said made sense to me; one of those things being how Bella and Edward are actually a match made in insecure heaven. Bella is the normal, average, plain-jane teen girl who can’t believe that a gorgeous vampire such as Edward would want her. Edward, although the perfect gentleman and blah blah blah, thinks that he is a monster with no soul. Really, both of them think that they are not good enough for the other one: Bella thinks Edward is too good for her because she’s so average and he’s so gorgeous; she thinks he deserves a gorgeous vampire girlfriend, not a boring teenager. Edward on the other hand, thinks Bella is too good for him; he thinks she deserves a great guy who’s human like her, so she can live her life, grow old, and die. This is one of the reasons why Edward did not want to turn her. Besides of this, both characters lack dimension; Bella doesn’t have much of a personality, and neither does Edward, the reader only knows what Edward mightbe thinking by what Bella says. You never truly tune into Edward’s mind to fully understand how he feels.
So end the end, Bella and Edward are more perfect together than I initially thought: they are both very insecure and think they aren’t good enough for each other.
I never actually thought about it that way. To think that the most insecure love story would feature two characters that actually ended up being perfect for each other, because they think they are not good for one another.
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