Isabel is frequently if not nearly always mistaken in her judgments of other people and their problems. Clearly the problem is with her fiancé, not with the other woman. Reasonably, her fiancé should correct his own behavior towards the other woman, but Isabel convinces herself and him to let her confront her rival. For example, in The Charming Quirks of Others, Isabel cannot stop herself from meddling even in her fiancé\’s sticky situation with another woman. She\’s a philosopher and constantly making decisions using her set of supposedly objectively moral beliefs, but the more I read of her various dilemmas and inquests, the more I realize that, far from making most decisions on ethical/moral bases, she just does what she wants! She can talk herself into a philosophical position for following her emotions almost every time she confronts a dilemma. Nevertheless, after reading 7 books of the series, I realized something about her was rankling me.
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