Describe a character from "On Beauty"

Zora Belsey - almost too much character.

She is determination personified. Anything she decides she will accomplish, she goes about working at with every ounce of effort she can scrape together. This is how she goes about her college education: when an application, exemplary transcripts, and writing samples don't get her in, she goes to the Dean and subtly threatens him so he puts her into Claire's poetry class.When she has a crush on Carl, she visits him twice a day while he works at Wellington with equally-subtle efforts at enticing him. She is opinionated, relentless, and zealous - a combination that makes for a potent, potentially destructive strength that she uses to bulldoze her way through problems. Her determination gives her a pigheaded quality, especially when it becomes Zora v. the World. Zora has her father's habit of concentrating so much on her life, her wants, her needs, that she does not see how her actions might conflict with what others are doing. It is hard for her to admit she's made mistakes and even harder to go about doing something about them. She's an interesting, thought-provoking character - but most of the time, I felt annoyed with her. She imagines she's filling a huge role wherever she is - Student, Academic, developing Scholar - but she often looks like a fool in the meantime.