"I confess to you, my friend, that I love you, and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion. But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own, when I declare to you that our marriage would render my eternally miserable, unless it were the dictate of your own free choice."
pg. 138
Elizabeth seems to be such a kind, compassionate person throughout this book. She may be slightly one dimensional in this aspect, but it doesn't stop the audience from connecting with her any more. It is no wonder Victor's father considers her his "more than daughter". She truly loves Victor, and is willing to give up her own happiness for his. I don't know if Victor could say the same. Yes, he says that if he had known what the monster was planning, he would have never consented to such a marriage. However, even if he himself expected to die on the wedding night, I believe it was selfish to still try to marry her. Obviously, the death of a husband would hurt Elizabeth more than the death of a close friend/brother. Why would he promise to tell Elizabeth a secret, yet plan to die and never actually reveal the truth? Obviously she would wonder about the truth for her entire life, wondering what the secret was that her dead husband was supposed to tell her. I think that Victor wasn't necessarily meanhearted at any point in the book, but his illogical thinking caused him to make decisions that resulted in the harm of his family and friends.
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