Hrm, I didn't put that well... my problem with Marjorie isn't just that I didn't like her, it was that I found her to be implausibly right all the time as well as rather two dimensional. I suspect the implausibly right would have been forgivable, since many book protags can be, but the flatness of the characterization killed it for me. I've liked quite a few characters who are unlikable or immoral or completely different from me, but sadly, the characters in Grass aren't among them. YMMV, of course, since my dislike of the book in no way detracts from anyone else's opinion of it.

Not quite sure where the plots about who ends up with whom has to do with Grass, and I tend to be very pro female characters not having to end up heterosexually romantically involved to complete their lives.