We’ve made it to the final elimination round before the real fun starts on March 1. We’ve already narrowed down the Sci-fi/Fantasy brackets for both Youngs and Olds, and last night we brought the fictional Youngs down to 16.
Tonight, we’ll be looking at the Fictional Olds (another big category, we have lots of axing to do!), but first let’s see the list of fictional Youngs moving on to the next round.
Harriet the Spy
Scout Finch
Nancy Drew
Margaret Simon
Ramona Quimby
Lesley
Karana
Emily Byrd Starr
Anne Shirley
Claudia Kincaid
Laura Ingalls
Turtle Wexler
Remy
Jessica “Not So” Darling
Melinda
Frankie Landau-Banks
Sorry ’bout your luck, Blair. If it was the TV version of you, I think you might have stood a chance.
Moving right along, here are your nominees for fictional Olds:
Jo March from Little Women
Celie from The Color Purple
Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter
Nora from A Doll’s House
Sethe from Beloved
Ophelia, Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Kate, from Shakespeare
Frankie Addams from The Member of the Wedding
Dina Dalal from A Fine Balance
Ayla from the Earth’s Children series
Scarlett O’Hara from Gone with the Wind
Offred from The Handmaid’s Tale
Carrie White, Steven King’s Carrie
Lily Bart from The House Of Mirth
Irene Adler from A Study In Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)
Becky Sharp from Vanity Fair
Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy
Jordan Baker, Myrtle, and Daisy from The Great Gatsby
Catherine from Wuthering Heights
Claire from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series
Mulan from the ballad of Hua Mulan
Dorothea Brooke, the heroine of MIDDLEMARCH
Francie Nolan from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
And on to the poll! Like the first two polls, pick five of the following to move on to the bracket.
11 replies on “Middlemarch Madness: Narrowing the Fictional Olds”
I want to vote for Hester, Juliet, Offred, Mulan, and Francie, but for whatever reason, I’m not allowed to vote! :(
And I agree with @fishwithoutabike: HOW DID LIZZIE BENNETT GET LEFT OFF THE LIST?! Did we all just figure she was such an obvious addition that no one thought to nominate her? It’s a travesty!
I closed the voting a little early b/c the staff is kicking me out for the weekend. I’ll drop yours in before I go. : )
Oooh… Mine are: Mulan, Offred, and Celie.
Ah! Thank you! :)
Explain to me why Daisy is on this list? OH MY GOD. She is so annoying.
Maybe my eye is skipping over it in the list, but is this Daisy from Gatsby?
Jordan Baker, Myrtle, and Daisy from The Great Gatsby
She’s like the flapper version of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl. I can hardly stand it. Maybe I’m biased because I hate that book, but I can’t imagine why anyone would have submitted her.
General call out to Persephoneer who submitted her, why do you think she’s so awesome?
Cupcakes. That was hard.
I’m very, very disappointed in you Persephone. Where was Lizzie Bennett in all this? Tsk tsk! Now go to your room.
oh so many good ones on here…being 2/3 thru the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, I’m thinking Lisabeth could take every single one of these ladies down.
I’m rooting for Offred to win the whole thing, but I also voted for Claire from Outlander, Sethe from Beloved, Jo from Little Women, and Dina from A Fine Balance. (Which, if you haven’t read A Fine Balance, do! I was just raving about it earlier today.)