I've been reading Much Ado About Nothing, and it seems to me I can't remember a single, single, single other FMC anything like Beatrice.
Now this must be a simple failure of my education, or maybe my memory has gone Alzy. There must be similar, outgoing, talkative, excessively witty young ladies out there in literature, whose inventiveness is endless, whose speech is like a faucet, and who seem almost unable to turn it off even if they wanted to, which of course they don't because why would they? We don't want them to. We like them the way they are. Who needs the Girl from Ipanema if you've got Beatrice in the room, right?
But as I say, I can't think of any others. Who am I forgetting?
by Bulawayoland