Talk:Charlie Swan/@comment-92.39.193.89-20110909175708/@comment-68.99.15.194-20111126151816

Let us count the ways.

Bella lies to her father countless times, she engages in self-destructive behavior during the course of "New Moon" (going into that bar believing that the potential rapists from Port Angeles were in there which also endangers her supposed "friend" Jessica, riding a faulty motorcycle without a helmet, cliff-diving), she refuses to get help for her depression after Edward dumps her, she lets Edward insult her father, she disappears to Italy without so much as a phone call to tell him that she was all right, the little demand she made when she got home which is technically her father's house, defying his authority in favor of her new sparkly father-figure Edward (sneaking out of the house when she is supposed to be grounded), and treating him like he was an infant to the point of questioning his ability to cook (for pete's sake, Charlie is a grown man and he was capable of taking care of himself even when Bella's not there).

I would have given some leeway to her if she was already described as a trouble-maker, was called out on her behavior and actually gave a crap about the consequences of her bad decisions, but Meyer keeps on telling us that Bella is a good and smart daughter even when there is solid evidence to the contrary.