Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Xue Baochai" in English language version.
Lin Daiyu loved and hated without a qualm. She yearned for spiritual rather than material gratification... While the beautiful but extremely delicate Lin Daiyu was willful, aloof and oversensitive and therefore was shunned by other people around her, the equally pretty Xue Baochai, who was sensible, tolerant and gentle, became everyone's favorite... Lin Daiyu embodies individual pursuit of freedom, whereas Xue Baochai symbolizes conformity and social order... Lin Daiyu was aloof, proud, naïve and straightforward. Despite her dependency on her grandmother for her living, having nothing to call her own but herself, she refused to conform blindly to the accepted customs and yield to the Confucian ethics. Whenever and wherever she could, she would defend her character and integrity... In the Xue family, there was a girl named Baochai. She was beautiful and graceful, scrupulously abiding by the conventional rules that women were made to obey. Shrewd, diplomatic and manipulative, she knew how to make friends and consequently became the favorite girl of all the families...
