I have read online and in books that some critics have compared Eustacia Vye to Emma Bovary from Madame Bovary. I took exception to this. Eustacia Vye has a lot of spark. In my view she is rarely mean to anyone; she is just proud and stands up for herself. I sympathised with Emma Bovary, but I thought she was silly and irresponsible, although she was not the most rotten character in the book by a long way.
