Describe the character of Beatrice in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter."

Rappaccinis
daughter, Beatrice, first appears as a devoted and dutiful daughter who seems to have accepted
her fate as sister of a toxic flowering plant. (Note, for example, how she sighs and crosses
herself after the drops of sap from the plant kill first a lizard, then an insect.) This is
something she has become accustomed to, although she claims to not have a knowledge of the
science of plants like her father. Beatrice speaks lovingly to her father and also to the plant,
which she embraces as if to escape the dreariness of common life.

She acts
like a coy maiden when Giovanni tosses her a bouquet. However, just as the flowers and plants in
Rappaccinis garden appear somewhat artificial, one detects this in Beatrice as well. She is
almost too good to be true and seems to have something unnatural about her. Indeed, she does.
Her fathers love for her has led him to make her poisonous and unlovable by others. She lives
for her sister plant and surprises herself when,...