 However, their judgement would be based as much on actual expectations of real social morality as on what they read in Thackeray's pages.More, that they thought she was bad need not have meant they were necessarily unsympathetic.Thackeray himself compared Sharp's career as "resembling the slitherings of a mermaid", and Bloom says that she is enough of a character to make her fundamentally likeable, to the extent that "any reader who does not like Becky is almost certainly not very likeable herself or himself".