"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." This is the quote that defines the entire book Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson. The main character of this book, Sara Louise, has many admirable and many non-admirable qualities. She is very much like a man. Also, she is very jealous and resentful of her beautiful and loved twin Caroline. In addition, she is very smart person. In this book, Sara Louise is like a man, jealous and resentful, and very smart.
             Sara Louise is more like a man than a woman in many ways. Instead of doing things that most girls do, like knitting, she goes out in the bay in her skiff (a boat) and catches crabs with her friend McCall. She is so unladylike that her friend McCall and her sister Caroline call her Wheeze, which is not a suggesting name to ladylike traits. Here is a quote from the book demonstrating how Caroline calls her Wheeze, but Sara Louise doesn't like her calling her that. "Her face grew dark. 'Oh, Wheeze,' she began to apologize. 'Call me no longer Wheeze, but Sara Louise,' I said grandly in the darkness, casting off the nickname she had diminished me with since we were two." Also, her hands were very uncared for and torn up. Sara Louise even says, "The nails were broken and none too clean, the cuticles ragged. There was a crack of red at the edge of my index finger where a hangnail had been chewed away." Those are the reasons that Sara Louise is more like a man at times than a woman.
             Along with having the non-admirable trait of being like a man, she was a very jealous and resentful of her twin Caroline. In the book, Sara Louise, is so resentful and jealous of her perfect twin Caroline that when Caroline takes away chances for Sara Louise to do something in her life it drives Sara Louise to the brink of insanity. Caroline steals one of Sara Louise's chances when Sara comes up with an idea about them going to a boarding sc...