Who is more mature, Arya or Sansa?

[Wolf of Winterfell]

I can't help but think while reading through GoT I feel like Arya is more mature than Sansa is. Sansa's got her head stuck up in the clouds with rainbows and unicorns while Arya is firmly planted on the ground playing with swords and exploring castles. So I wondered what other people thought about who is more mature in this book.

So who is more mature do you think?

[ThePrinceWhoisFlummoxed]

Arya is certainly more likable, no doubt about that. In GoT, Sansa's immaturity is very annoying, what with all of the clouds, rainbows, and unicorns. When Arya is immature, it is in such a different way - she can be a bit petty, as well as vindictive. Both are children, though, and both have some maturing too do, of course. I don't think I am spoiling anything to say that both also have some hard life lessons to come . . .

[Horza]

Arya does a lot of childish stuff in that book.

There's the whole business with Mycah, which regardless of Joffrey's utter dickery displays a lack of awareness of the dangers her noble station poses to the smallfolk she elopes with. Her response to the plotters beneath the Red Keep is also pretty typical of a nine year old, not grasping the details of the conversation and muddling her story to Ned with talk of mummers and wizards (ain't just Sansa who believes in fairytales...)

Even when she sees things more clearly than her space cadet elder sister, she doesn't have the maturity to get her point across, preferring to throw fruit and yell. So yeah, they're both immature in their own way.

[Quentyn Kartell]

I would say Sansa. She is more interested in becoming a woman and being a good wife to Joffrey. That's what she was taught.

[Wolf of Winterfell]

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Arya does a lot of childish stuff in that book.

There's the whole business with Mycah, which regardless of Joffrey's utter dickery displays a lack of awareness of the dangers her noble station poses to the smallfolk she elopes with. Her response to the plotters beneath the Red Keep is also pretty typical of a nine year old, not grasping the details of the conversation and muddling her story to Ned with talk of mummers and wizards (ain't just Sansa who believes in fairytales...)

Even when she sees things more clearly than her space cadet elder sister, she doesn't have the maturity to get her point across, preferring to throw fruit and yell. So yeah, they're both immature in their own way.

I have to agree with you there, that was what I was thinking too now, I'm in the middle of Clash of Kings now and the more I read about them both the more I think they're on the same level with each other.

[Horza]

Which isn't that surprising, as they're a) kids, but also b) deconstructions of classic fantasy tropes

(Tomboy Princess in Arya's case, while Sansa's PoV is a meticulous demolition job on concepts of nobility, chivalry and courtly love that High Fantasy straight up inherited from the Romantics and the medievals before them.

[Queen Sansa Stark]

I would say neither. Both of them are pretty childish. That Arya thinks that there is justice out there is very much naive and nor is her tendency to resort to violence in AGOT mature. Same goes for the glorification of knights (which Sansa does too).

[Frances Bean Corbray]

I would assume that Sansa is about two years further along in the maturation process.

[Blowingbubbles]

Sansa wants to look good in front of people and impress people. Where as Arya doesn't care, and just gets on with her own thing.

[chongjasmine]

I think Sansa is more mature. And Arya is more childish.

But that is only natural, since Sansa is older than Arya.

Both of them are still children, though, and that can be seen in the way they interact with each other and the other people.

[Crowzeye]

Arya is certainly more likable, no doubt about that. In GoT, Sansa's immaturity is very annoying, what with all of the clouds, rainbows, and unicorns. When Arya is immature, it is in such a different way - she can be a bit petty, as well as vindictive. Both are children, though, and both have some maturing too do, of course. I don't think I am spoiling anything to say that both also have some hard life lessons to come . . .

Arya's immaturity is likable whereas Sansa's is just so ANNOYING

[Khal Peteos]

I would say Sansa, she is defiantly in her manners and the way she dresses but in a way she is very child like especially after the incident with Mycah the butchers boy when Lady is killed.