Talk about that." (5.1046)Īnd yes, Buttercup might be jealous and childish for much of this book, but she's also clever and devoted, and these are things that she wishes people valued in her a little more highly. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am.
"Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. Even when she and Westley first reunite, she has to order him to stop talking so much about her beauty. The PersonĪs someone who's been praised for her beauty her entire life, Buttercup sometimes has to insist that people treat her like a human being instead of a pretty painting. So Buttercup's taking control over the moment and her future. Adding to the sort of take-charge element is the fact that this is the moment that eventually leads to the birth of Waverley, Westley and Buttercup's daughter.
It used to be riding horses all the time, now it's to get in Westley's pants-her interest in doing what she wants is the same. Yeah, about those lovemaking classes… That's pretty weird, right? But academics aside, here we see Buttercup going after what she wants. Of course I should, considering all those classes in lovemaking I took at Royalty School." (10.335) He plays dumb at first (even though he's not a virgin), and Buttercup tells him to let her do everything, saying: Once things have calmed down and Westley and Buttercup are safely together, Buttercup tries to get Westley to have sex with her. William Goldman, you see, has a bit of a thing for lists and rankings. As the author tells us, "Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list" (1.144). Buttercup has become so used to this routine that she comes to take Westley's devotion for granted-it's not until the beautiful Countess shows an interest in Westley that Buttercup realizes she might be in danger of losing the boy's affection.īuttercup ends up tossing and turning in bed all night when she first suspects a romance between Westley and the Countess.
Buttercup has spent nearly her entire life bossing Westley around, but the guy has never seemed to mind. It takes her quite a while, but Buttercup eventually realizes that she's in love with Westley, a poor servant who works on her family's farm. The book ends up talking so much about Buttercup's beauty, though, that you start to wonder if there's much of a personality behind it. But all this does is make her face look even more beautiful and distinguished. The loss of her lover, Westley, has made the Princess very sad for many years, and the process has taken its toll by putting lines on her face. Girl has come into her own look-wise, in other words. Or as the author tells us, "The twenty-one-year-old Princess far surpassed the eighteen-year-old mourner" (5.7). Her beauty is so unfaltering that by the time Prince Humperdinck has her in princess training, she has become-undisputedly-the most beautiful woman in the world. But no matter how much she neglects appearance, she can't hide the beauty that lies underneath all that dirt. More than just being a tomboy, though, Buttercup practically goes out of her way to neglect her appearance: "She hated to wash her face, she loathed the area behind her ears, she was sick of combing her hair and did so as little as possible" (1.12). These are Buttercup's sentiments exactly. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. As the narrator asks, "How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. She's a tomboy who only wants to ride her horse around the countryside. But the only reason she isn't ranked higher is that she doesn't care about her appearance at all.
One of the first things we hear about Buttercup is that she is one of the most beautiful women in the world-the twentieth most, to be precise.
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