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In the article Deconstructing Bella Swan: What Makes Her Tick?, we looked at what makes the heroine of the Twilight saga a good role model. Sadly, while she has a multitude of very good traits, the positive doesn’t exactly outweigh the negative.

What Makes Bella Tick: The Bad

Like all characters, Bella Swan has to have faults. On the first pass through Twilight, it appears that the only one she has is her crippling clumsiness, but on closer examination, a few somewhat disturbing underlying personality traits come to light.

For starter’s, Bella has very low self-esteem. While this is a condition that plagues all teenage girls at one time or another, Bella is self deprecating more often than not, putting herself down, even in her thoughts. Her love interest, Edward, is constantly described as perfect and when Bella measures herself next to him, she finds herself woefully inadequate. Even in such small things a working together in biology class, while the two are taking notes for their assignment, Bella doesn’t want to ‘ruin’ the work they’re doing with her handwriting because his is so elegant and beautiful and hers is not.