Talk:Edward Cullen/@comment-50.9.66.239-20130630181146/@comment-99.1.174.156-20131101210729

The Twilight Saga is targeted toward teenagers, namely, teenaged girls. In my opinion, Meyer made him the way he is to show her readers how a young man should treat you. Many young women these days end up with good for nothing, immature boys, and Edward is the oppisite. He puts Bella's needs before his own, he loves her unconditionally, and he respects her. When teenaged girls read about how "perfect" Edward Cullen is and how unselfish and mature he is, maybe their views on what they should want in a guy will change. And Edward is not perfect, in all actuality, he's far from it. He's a bit controlling, sometimes overbearing, he's also impulsive at times. These are not "endearing" traits. Many of the Twilight Saga readers wanted his head on a silver platter when he left Bella. If there were more young men like him in the world there probably wouldn't be so many broken hearted, musguided young women, who often end up as single parents.