Talk:Edward Cullen/@comment-71.99.11.48-20110619034007

I'd like to take a moment to compare Edward Cullen with Roland Deschain (the main character from Stephen King's Dark Tower series). Roland was forced to watch as the women he loved was burned alive by a crazed lynch mob, was tricked by an evil witch into accidentally killing his mother, was spirited away against his will during a battle that claimed not only his father but his comrades and his homeland as well, was set on a quest for the Dark Tower with nothing more than the vague hope that it could restore his damaged world to normal, had two of his fingers on his right hand bitten off by a mutant lobster, and as of the fourth book is beginning to feel the crippling arthritis that runs through his father's bloodline and will soon leave him unable to move under his own power. But regardless of it all; Roland never runs from his pain or allows it to break him. He faces it, he overcomes it, and he moves on. Edward on the other hand constantly whines about being a vampire, runs away whenever things get even slightly difficult, does absolutely nothing with his life, and tries to kill himself after he believes Bella died (despite the fact that he left her to begin with). In short, compared to Roland Deschain, Edward is just an emo weakling. And when compared to Stephen King, Stephanie Meyer is just a sexually frustrated mormon housewife.