What literary character are you most like?

[Wetzelbill]

I would say I'm a lot like the narrator in Fight Club. I am an awful insomniac, been in some fights, talk to myself sometimes and usually just generally I do odd things.

[dobak]

1. Humbert Humbert

Just Kidding!!!

Really, I am kidding

[mitchum]

2. Kenny Becker in Richard Price's "Ladies' Man"

Kenny makes a move

[JAbuchan08]

3. Ford Prefect

I'm just waiting for a spaceship to come along to take me somewhere that makes more sense to me.

[mikehiggins]

4. George Smiley n/t

[CanuckAmok]

5. Patrick Bateman.

Kidding--I wish! (also kidding).

When I read "Generation X", I had a creepy feeling that Douglas Coupland had been spying on me for months. I'd have to say I'm exactly like the narrator in "Generation X".

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice

n/t

[Speck Tater]

7. Charels Dickens' Fezziwig

nt

[La_Serpiente]

8. Ralph

from "Lord of the Rings"

[Leftist78]

9. Preacher Casey

Grapes of Wrath, except that I'm not a preacher, but I do relate to the questioning nature of the man.

[catzies]

10. Scarlett O'Hara

After a promising start in young life, carefree and optimistic, a rash decision at 16 led me quickly through a brief relationship, followed by single parenthood and years of privation with no family or community support.

This led to eudcating myself and going into a career that made me self-sufficient, although in the process I became isolated and unable to make personal attachments so people see me as being cold, mean, materialistic and bitter.

That was Scarlett through the end of GWTW (book, not movie). Scarleet in the sequel went on to rediscover what qualities she had lost in her youth and I am hoping to do the same.

[dolo amber]

11. Ugh ugh ugh

As much as I hate to admit it, me too.


I am so determined to do things my way, consequences be dammned, that my entire life thus far has been a constant uphill struggle. Another of Scarlett's *charming* characteristics I share is the willingness to go to the ends of the earth to help someone in need, but you'd better believe I'll be bitching and moaning the entire time. x(

[catzies]

14. I think Scarlett should be reclaimed. She was a feminist in her own

way and not just the shallow, man-hungry egomaniac in the movie version.

She was an entrepreneur scorned by her peers for being unfeminine, and she did a man's job in a man's world better than some of the (remaining) men around her and paid a big price for it.

[Piperay]

32. Yeah, me too regarding

"I'll think about it tomorrow". I have a really bad habit of pushing unpleasant things aside and telling myself I will leave it for later, I end up then in an even worse situation. :-(

[Rowdyboy]

12. Ignatius Reilly and Lazarus Long

are my two favorites

[ironflange]

13. Updike's Rabbit Angstrom

It's sort of scary actually, but at least my wife didn't drop the baby in the tub.

[RobinA]

15. Holden Caulfield

The problem is, I'm 45 and female. I fight it every day. Damn phonies.

[NightTrain]

23. Me, too!

I want my grave filled with manure and my epitaph to read:

HE DIED AS HE LIVED; DROWNING IN BULLSHIT.

[Zorra]

16. Ayla

from "Clan of the Cave Bear".

[Dirk39]

17. Karl Roßmann, Josef K., and then only the K. was left.

"..the books we need are the kind that act upon us like
a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone
we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we
were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from
all human habitation — a book should serve as the ax for
the frozen sea within us"
Franz Kafka

[HuckleB]

18. Aram Garoghlanian...

besides, I'm still a kid at heart...

[calimary]

19. Mad-Eye Moody from "Harry Potter." Although I don't look a bit like that.

And I'm female and he isn't. He's the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher later on in the series and he's well-equipped for it. From his looks and demeanor, it's clear he's had more than a few scrapes with evil wizards. Not that I have, but his incessant warning to his young students is "CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!!!!!!" and "You've GOT to KNOW!!!!!!!!!" That's what I tell my kids on a daily basis. And, yes, my kids and I discuss politics quite a bit. My son thinks he's the best-informed kid in the 6th grade, and his older sister is increasingly proud of her debating skills, particularly when she runs into a classmate who's a right-winger (or from right-winger parents).

[Sting]

20. Samwise Gamgee from LOTR...

I am goofy and do stupid things at times but I do mean well. :) I look nothing like him, though.

[stanwyck]

21. Caddie

from The Sound and the Fury

[JanMichael]

22. Ludvik in "The Joke" by Milan Kudera.

Obscure enough?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

24. MONGO

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

25. H. G. Wells' nameless Time Traveller (nt)

[AlienGirl]

26. Hobie in "Beam Us Home"

Anyone else know who I'm talking about?

Tucker

[kodi]

27. HCE

wake

[RainDog]

28. A Swell-Looking Babe, oh wait...

make that a Swelled Looking Babe, dammit.

[wickerwoman]

29. Maybe Athos from the Three Musketeers.

I don't say much but people generally listen when I have a plan.

I keep myself to a pretty strict moral code and can be snobbish, dour and a pain in the ass as well.

Plus, I've given up on love.

I'm not quite as drunk or well-bred though.

I read the Three Musketeers at least 40 times when I was in my teens and then went back to it after 10 years and realized I'd turned into Athos without realizing it.

[theemu]

30. Among others...

I see elements of myself in

Alexander Portnoy (Portnoy's Complaint)
Jurgis Rudkus (The Jungle)
Zooey Glass (Franny and Zooey)
Toru Okada (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)

[TheZoo]

31. Marley

Must be that time of the year :-(


On edit: Rosencrantz or Guildenstern; very minor characters (like me) whose death is so unimportant that it is announced by the ambassador from England.