Pick ONE literary character.?

Question

Who is your favorite character from the works of literature that you have read? Tell why.

Answer 1

Tess Durbeyfield, of Tess of the Durbervilles.

Her strength and purity in the face of universal and societal injustice--her refusal to give up.

Answer 2

Ignatius O'Reilly - form "A Confederacy of Dunces" by
John Kennedy Toole
In my opinion, the book is as advertised – a comic masterpiece. The main character, Ignatius O’ Reilly, is a brilliant invention – a storm of obesity, intelligence, flatulence, pretention and near-madness. The story moves along quickly, and I loved the expressions & language Ignatius uses. Nothing is merely stupid in his eyes. It is an abortion. He rarely speaks; he roars, bellows and screams. A rival is not just you idiot - he is: you deluded fool, you “anyone for tennis”, golf-playing, cocktail-quaffing pseudo-pedant. Ignatius’s speech ranges from the high-end intellectual to the absurdly pop, with barely a hiccup (or ripping belch) between. Three rather amusing examples follow:

I am at this moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labours, I make an occasional cheese dip.
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Now I am being compared to a degnerate old female fraud. Worse, I am losing in the comparison. My own mother daring to malign me so. Well, I have had enough of this. I’m going into the parlour to watch the Yogi Bear program. Between wine breaks, bring me a snack of some sort. My valve is screaming for appeasement.
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I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially gruelling, a teenage beach musical. I almost collapsed during the singing sequence on surfboard.


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Answer 3

The Chief in One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest. He sees things in a way that no one else does and his visions are in a lot of ways more accurate than reality. His craftyness at letting everyone assume that he is deaf and dumb means that people are not afraid to be themselves [good and bad] around him which give him extraordinary power over them without them realizing it.

Polgara and Belgarath in David Eddings Belgariad and Malloreon series. Pol is a strong woman unafraid to use power and love in equal measure and Belgarath [her fater] is just as powerful hiding behind a doddring old man. All the characters are well drawn but Pol and Begarath are the best.

Answer 4

I like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye.
He realizes at a young age that the adults in the world around him are just a bunch of phonies.
He makes his observations in a funny, intelligent way.

Answer 5

From current books, I'd say Betsy from Undead and Unwed series or Claire from The Outlander series. From the classics, it would've been fun having all of Huck Finn's adventures.

Answer 6

Miss Betsy Thoughtless - she is so unlike all the "proper" and polite characters that are seen in the literature of her period.

Answer 7

How can I pick just one?

I suppose my favorite is Will Ladislaw from Middlemarch, and anyone who has read the book knows why. He was such a wonderful character.

Answer 8

In GOOD literature, I liked Don Quixote. He was humorous and good natured.

In books, I liked Ruby in Honey, Baby, Sweetheart. (at least I think her name was Ruby...it has been a while.) I liked her because she was innocent but learning about the world.

Answer 9

I love Sherlock Holmes...he was intelligent, suave, well read, well spoken, musically talented....and a bit of an *** (mule)...probably gay too...ahhh the perfect man for me

Answer 10

Hamlet. He's the most intelligent, the most psychologically complex, and the best punster.