can i just say i don't really understand where the thought that eponine would hate cosette personally and specifically just for being cosette comes from. like, sure, maybe she resents her a bit for the whole 'marius' thing, that's an understandable leap to make. maybe she even harbours some jealousy for cosette getting to live comfortably while eponine is in poverty. but at no point did i interpret eponine really expressing disdain for cosette specifically; it never really comes off as personal. eponine is aware of her own standing in society and the tragedy of her story comes from someone so young being so resigned to their own disenfranchisement and how they are perceived by the world, and that there's nothing she can do to change that, despite desiring things that are out of her reach in her social standing, like the love of marius or just getting to be a teenage girl. she knows what she longs for and she knows where she is, and she recognizes how irreconcilable those two things are, and imo that's where a lot of what some people interpret as eponine's 'sadness' or 'bitterness' comes from, not from some imagined rivalry with cosette.
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