Well, I'm going to start with Briony. Do I feel sympathetic? Yes, of course. She was a young girl who was confused with what she was seeing first hand. She wanted so much to feel these adult emotions, but was unable to translate what she was seeing. Did she make an awful mistake? Yes, she made a mistake that haunted her throughout the novel. She was trying to atone for her mistake as she was able to comprehend the resulting actions while she was truly becoming an adult. Of course, we soon see that it is too late. I don't think she was able to atone for her mistakes, but I believe her adding the fictitous sections of her "final" novel, helped her in a way to cope with what she had done. She truly wanted her sister and Robbie to have a great life together.
I think that Lola could have atoned for what she has hidden inside her. She was laying there after it happened knowing who had done this to her, but she still was able to stay quiet when the heroic Robbie returned to the estate. He was always treated as a lower class servant, while the powerful Mr. Marshall laid back and took a nap.
Because of Robbie's tragic death, him and Cecilia were unable to atone for their actions that night. They should have had a chance to prove that their love was real.
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