User blog comment:Roseliehale2.0/Roselie Hale/@comment-176.252.224.24-20150823103349

During the slumber party episode in Eclipse, Rosalie tells her story to Bella in an endeavour to persuade Bella to change her course; this is a fascinating character piece on various levels, not least the unexpected generosity which Rosalie exhibits towards Bella, whom she still dislikes, but who  Rosalie yet cares about enough that she will go to considerable trouble for her sake, to prevent a terrible impending disaster. One throwaway detail, quite revealing of Rosalie, strikes me now. Rosalie confesses to doing the very thing to Emmett which she wants to prevent Edward from doing to Bella; although she asked Carlisle Cullen to do the actual deed, knowing that Carlisle would not be able to refuse. Rosalie makes no excuses for herself and she shows a previously hidden area of warmth inside herself, a humility and gratitude never seen until then. She relinquishes her previously very obvious poor-little-rich-girl sense of entitlement; accepting the mercy of providence with a truly becoming sense of gratitude and humility and openly acknowledging that she has been blessed when she ought to have been punished. But, actually, she has experienced a litany of miserable ill fortune until then, with the decision of the Cullen family to take her in being the only previous stroke of good luck she has had, and of course she cannot see it like that when she would sincerely prefer to have been allowed to die. Being embraced and loved by Emmett, who is her "victim", is the one great compensation of her Vampire life and for this reason she is in a difficult spot to argue that Bella should remain human. Yet she tells her story with rigorous honesty, a difficult story for her to tell, and with an entirely altruistic purpose.