I simply couldn't stand that spiteful little...
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She was a nasty little thing.
"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"
She was very much her mother's daughter. I shudder to think of her all grown up.
shareI watched the film first then read the book. She is so annoying that I really want to go in and strangle her. Its not often that I feel so negative about a character. Normally its like "oh, bad guy" *shrug*.
The little actress captured it very well.
She deserve much more than just a slap in the end.
the scene where she smears her muddy hands all over the clean sheets and says smugly "All dirty now", it's little wonder Griet slapped her...I wonder if ANYONE had slapped Cornelia in her entire life? It must have been quite a shock for her!
"Live long and prosper"
I just binge read this amazing book in a day and wanted to slap Cornelia way more than the 2 times Griet slapped her. What a little b!tch!
shareAs a 17th century child, I imagine Cornelia had been slapped quite a few times in her life.
Evidenced in how easily she put out her hands to be whipped when she hid the hair thing. ( I have no idea what it is called in English)
The whole time I was asking myself: "why is she like that?"
shareWhat annoyed me the most was that there was once a real person called Cornelia Vermeer and she may not have been like that at all.
I know you can't libel a long dead person but I still think the portrayal is so unfair.
That also goes for Vermeer's wife. We might not know much about her but from what I gather from my reading she was a hard working and devoted wife and mother not the lazy, shrew of the film. Also the real marriage was thought to have been a happy one.
Maybe because she's a middle child, and a girl. As either a son or the firstborn daughter, she would have more prestige in the family. But with the birth of every new sibling, which is happening almost yearly, Cornelia gets further lost in the crowd. The only time she's noticed is when she's misbehaving. Punishment is not a deterrent; she endures it to remind her parents and grandmother that she exists.
When Vermeer died, he left eleven living children, and while much about his life is unknown, it's believed he and his wife had four others who died young. They were the Duggars of Delft.
I think Cornelia was jealous of the artistic relationship between Griet and Vermeer. Cornelia probably didn't have much of a father/daughter relationship and was upset that anyone would steal time away from her father. She was a jealous child, and took it out of Griet.
shareShe was sooo annoying, couldnt stand her
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