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名利场人物性格分析 [edit] Becky Sharp The heroine, or more correctly the anti~heroine, is an intelligent young woman with a gift for satire? She is described as a petite sandy haired girl who has green eyes and a great deal of wit? Fluent in both French and English, Becky has a beautiful singing voice, plays the piano, and shows great talent as an actress? She is also completely amoral and without conscienee. She does not seem to have the ability to get attached to other people, and lies easily and intelligently to get her way. She is extremely manipulative and, after the first few chapters and her failure to attract Jos Sedley, is not shown as being particularly sincere? Never having known financial or social security even as a child, Becky desires it above all things? Nearly everything she does is with the in tention of secur ing a stable position for herself, or herself and her husband after she and Rawdon are married? She advances Rawdon，s interests tirelessly, flirting with men such as General Tufto and the Marquess of Steyne in order to get him promoted. She also uses her feminine wiles to distract men at card parties while Rawdon cheats them blind. Marrying Rawdon Crawley in secret was a mistake, as was running off instead of begging Miss Crawleys forgiveness? She also fails to manipulate Miss Crawley through Rawdon so as to obtain an inheritance? Although Becky manipulates men very easily, she does not even try to cultivate the friendship of most women? Lady Jane, the Dobbin sisters, and Lady Ste)me see right through her. Amelia and (initially) Miss Crawley are exceptions to the rule. [edit] Amelia Sedley Amelia is Beckys opposite: pale, passive, and emotionally devoted to her husband and son. She marries George Osborne against the wishes of Georges father, and when George dies at the battle of Waterloo she brings up little George alone while living with her parents? She is completely dominated by her spendthrift father (who steals and sells the annuity Georges frie