Twilight | Character Analysis
Isabella / Bella Swan
Bella Swan is the viewpoint character in the novel. Though it is written from a third person point of view, Twilight is very much her story. Bella is seventeen, out of place, very bright, pale, clumsy, and unaware of her own emerging beauty. In fact, her name is a barely disguised symbol of her identity: when the book starts, she is the ugly duckling who is soon to become a beautiful (bella = beautiful) swan. As swans mate for life and thus become symbols of unending love, so too does Bella fall fully and completely for Edward.
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