If you've been reading my blog for a long time, you may be surprised at the title of this post. Many of you will know that Captain Wentworth is far from my favorite Jane Austen hero, and I've never actually had much of a fondness for him.
I do wonder how much of this might be due to two facts:
1) I don't care for any of the movie portrayals of him.
2) In the book there is really very little time to get to know him. We see his actions, but we can't get into his mind at all until he finally opens up to Anne again, which is at nearly the end.
Also, I wonder what Persuasion would have ended up like if Jane Austen had lived to see it published. She wasn't necessarily ready for it to be published yet. She was becoming too ill to even work on her newest story idea, much less the tedious task of in-depth editing of what was probably equal to a second draft.
But I'm going off on a rabbit trail here. Frederick Wentworth is the subject at hand.
