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Reading Response to Vanity Fair William　Makepeace　Thackeray, the author of Vanity Fair,was a representative of critical realism in the 19th century. Vanity Fair enjoys a vital position in the English literature history.With lots of truth in detail, Thackeray drew a picture of the society in the first half of 19th century.The subtitle of this novel is A Novel Without a Hero.It is lack of a hero, but full of mental and chatacter description. It is said that this is not only a novel , this is a society in miniature. It is not just in the united kingdom at that time, it is also in today. In average novels, there are always heroes. But Vanity Fair boasts neither heroes nor decent figures. Conversely, all the characters have obvious shortcomings.Under Thackerys pen, Dobbin is stupid while Amelia selfish. The perfect person or near-perfect person dont belong to this work.In spite of Dobbin,every character is ugly.People who are mild, kind and clever end up sadly while the selfish,dull and malicious guys live a smooth life. From this point of view, we may ask: what is the value of success? Moreover,since success is momentary, the success of the nonenity can never leave a trace in the history. In the stage of Vanity Fair,honest citizens like Dobbin and Amilia suffer from adversity;the shrewd and sophisticated Becky Sharp gets buckets of money unscrupulously, aiming to pretend to be a person of up-class. At the beginning, Becky Sharp doesnt desire to be a social butterfly, just wants to be the wife of Amelias brother Joseph, having a place to settle down, eating mutton, and drinking good wine . She doesnt have any relatives. A life of middle class will satisfy her.She never falls in love with any men she dates with .Becky craves for money and status all through her life, but fails. She will not gain happiness even if she realized her dream. She used to be a clever and beautiful girl. After being attracted by fame and benefit, she is trapped. Since then she becomes hypocris