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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I don’t understand what you mean by “too perfect.” It makes me think of a book meant more as a morality play than anything else? Which honestly sounds boring. A character who is a perfectionist (with all the intensity/issues that brings) is a different story. The first makes me think of some older novels- Meg in “Little Women” or Mary in “Little House on the Prairie” but the characters do face their own trials and issues, and life does not go perfectly for them. [/quote]

To work off this PP, I agree that there is a difference between a perfectionist* main character and a "perfect" character--perhaps your story leans too much towards the latter (i.e. a perfectionist that actually becomes pretty perfect?). And I think the examples of Meg and Mary are good ones--especially because they served more as foils for the imperfect protagonist, rather than the center of the story. (And the stories would have been pretty darn dull if they were the protagonists... at least if remained as "perfect" as they appeared).

*That said, I also think a perfectionist, while more interesting, is also a bit of a hard sell. Generally folks prefer unconventional, quirky, messy, anti-authority, "ahead of their time" characters--basically Jo (or even Laura).[/quote]

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