I have a hard time warming to FW because his resentment is so unjust and unkind. His coldness to Anne after what they had been to each other is all out of proportion to her deserts. Eight years and he's still harboring such a fierce grudge that he won't talk to her beyond what civility requires -- what arrogance! And weakness, as we know that nursing the grudge doesn't make him happy. (I can't remember: in that interesting thread where folks enumerated instances of characters in this book wallowing their emotions -- is FW in there? He ought to be.)