Character Analysis: Eleonor Ramilly Savage

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2.2.2. Eleonor Ramilly Savage Another female character that appears to be an ideal representative of the emancipated woman is This Side OF Paradise’s Eleanor Ramilly Savage. Amory Blaine, the main protagonist of the novel, meets Eleonor while taking a shelter during a rainy haystack in Maryland: “(…) he saw nothing, but a slender figure, dark, damp, bobbed hair, and the small white hands with the thumbs that bent back like his” . Mentioned in the passage hairstyle, matches Eleanor’s rather wild persona perfectly. As the result of a quarrel with her Baltimore relatives, concerning her rather usual personality, she came to live in Maryland with her grandparent. She was an open-minded, independent women, who, unlike her female counterparts

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