elesamarie 's review for:

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

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I've now finished Vanity Fair and there are many things about human nature that I enjoyed seeing the author flesh out. He has many characters that seem very good or very bad - but who still are capable of surprising acts. In a way, it reminds me of that movie Crash - where horrible acts are done by the very good and surprisingly humane acts are dong by the very bad. Vanity Fair, I hadn't realized, is taken from Pilgrim's Progress and represents all those things (material, relational) that distract us from a relationship with God. It almost seems, in Vanity Fair's cultural setting, that society and its p's & q's IS god to those who inhabit it.