What are most craziest fictional novel characters in american literature?

Question

'catcher in the rye' comes to mind

Answer 1

this is a legitimate question, and for some of your resondents are not even up to the task of asnwering, much less critisizing you, Dickens, american??? oh let us get real . Perhaps they need to yet learn of 1776. but that is their problem. If you mean crazy/insane certifiable, they will be minor, for the most part. this is how i will interprete your Question, let us say really eccentric, not "deeply distrubed",(psychically/morally)for instance Hamlet, of course Williams'.I discover the more i elaborate not to justify but to clarify, the more i lose in this new scoring because i genuinely want to give a some of what i have studied back, and not that i am always correct. So brevity it is(in no hierachically order, except the first, not a novel but a short story, check your other answers').
1. Bartelby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville, "I prefer not.."
2. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, ishall remember his name
- now legit novels
3. hard, because i'm trying to concentate on a crux character, I will come up with one decisive example, leave Twain and Faulkner out, all characters are representative of some truth, not added for comic foil. must look for scathing satire; Babbit and Main Street try as tragedy but fail, allthough succeed in comedic intentional heights, but not sustainable as a whole. to end this , before i get dnied any resonse, let us go with Edith Wharton's Age of innonce, not the protagonists, the Countess and Archer, ?or Newman?/ to constast with that pillar of society, that lugubrius and phillandering man about town, an d the "newly minted" big money adulterer, that one crumbles, one does not. Stick with Bartleby, a novella, and perfect answer to the Dickensian crowd, laugh,. I respond with just what is remaining of my intellect, not as a text-book stock answer. I hope i has helped alittle. Stick with Bartleby demolishes the Capt. Ahab fool. L.S.

Answer 2

The Ward from King Fortis the Brave

Answer 3

Thomas Covenant

Answer 4

Captain Ahab in Moby Dick was pretty crazy.
In English lit, I'd have to name the wife kept in the attic (Jane Eyre) or the bride wearing her wedding dress at 80 (in Great Expectations).

Answer 5

Humbert Humbert from Lolita and the guy from American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis.

Answer 6

Id have to say Rip Van Winkle.

Answer 7

ANY character in "Gone With the Wind". What a bunchof dweebies! Unreal!

Answer 8

I don't not know but maybe possibly you could can try CHECKING YOUR GRAMMAR! 'Most craziest' is, uh, wow, how do I put this kindly?

Answer 9

haha, yeah I was gonna say Holden Caulfield.

Answer 10

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