#and don't tell me catherine barkley doesn't smell like cinnamon

[rosepompadour]

types of girls, heroines of classic literature edition

anna karenina: flair for the dramatic, still reads children's books, always drinks tea with her cake, looks fantastic in velvet, gets excited when it snows cosette: bakes sweets for her friends, the nicest person in any room, owns too many heart shaped lockets, wears pink blush every day, still enjoys milk and cookies, would do anything for those closest to her holly golightly: always sleeping, takes taxis everywhere, never lets her emotions show, more issues than vogue, only wears ballet flats, regularly has champagne for breakfast, collects perfume ads, loves the rain daisy buchanan: takes bubble baths, wears a lot of sparkly headbands, always drives over the speed limit, constantly flirting, can't make decisions on her own, wears pink all the time, confetti in her hair isabel archer: loves old bookstores, owns more than one beret, eats french pastries at coffee shops, too busy to date, passionate about literature and history, intensely american but secretly wants a british accent marguerite gautier: likes glittery makeup, has a season pass to the ballet, keeps bonbons in her evening bag, has a charge account at all the best boutiques, owns pink silk bed sheets, keeps too many perfume bottles on her vanity table, writes love letters exclusively in french emma bovary: sits around in lingerie and cries, always falling in love, watches too many black-and-white films from the 1940s, keeps a diary, survives on rose macarons, would rather be in paris tess durbeyfield: always in a silk hair ribbon, looks like a sweetheart but will definitely kill you, stress baker, only wears pastel shades, eats frosting out of the tube, has a heart of gold and tons of girl friends catherine barkley: hopeless romantic, long shiny hair, eats dessert first, stronger than she looks, loves being kissed, wears extravagant nightgowns, saves perfumed love letters, only wants to be with her boyfriend and a few close friends, loves europe, smells like cinnamon natasha rostova: wants to be a ballerina inside a snowglobe, reads a lot of fairy tales, has snowflakes on her eyelashes, secretly twirls in ball gowns in front of her bedroom mirror, always laughing estella havisham: signature look of liquid eyeliner and red lipstick, wants to be alone, frosty brunette, has a closet full of louboutins, drinks a glass of wine every night, too sarcastic for her own good

#literature #the great gatsby #war and peace #madame bovary #les miserables #anna karenina #tragically i am daisy #and don't tell me catherine barkley doesn't smell like cinnamon #she's up there in the mountains playing in the snow and drinking hot chocolate #of course she smells good #like a damn yankee candle #also: it was so hard to write a description for tess that wasn't tragic #my modern conception of tess is that she works in a bakery (dairies are so 19th century) and has sworn off men for good #so i definitely think she'd get high on her own frosting supply #i was inspired by that scene in the book where she drinks milk out of the pail and the dairyman is appalled #modern tess has moved on from milk and is now all about eating frosting out of the tube #i've made up my mind #**