Which literary character do you most relate to?

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― Fred (Fred), Monday, 20 September 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

A mixture of Elizabeth Bennett and Frankie from The Member of the Wedding.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Sheila Levine and Bridget Jones.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Bertie Wooster. Or maybe Arthur Dent.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 20 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Or maybe Alfred J. Prufrock, Edgar Mint, and Walter Mitty. My gosh, yes!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Inspector Hound in Tom Stoppard's play, The Real Inspector Hound.

― Inspector Hound, Monday, 20 September 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Hamlet. Either him or Sauron.

― Moti Bahat, Monday, 20 September 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Great day: Psmith

Good day: Eowyn or Aragorn, depending on how butch I'm feeling.

Work day: Blanche White

Normal day: the Misanthrope

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Enkidu.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Jean-Luc Picard.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Qfwfq in Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics.

― LTR, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

work day: bartleby

― tomlang (tom), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Anne Shirley

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

As much as I want to relate to a 'cool' character like Raskolnikov, I find I end up more closely understanding and bonding with characters like Chip from The Corrections.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:00 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG Holden Caulfield d00ds

― fcussen (Burger), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Charlie Rose OTM.

― Comme personne (common_person), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrei in Pelevin's The Yellow Arrow.

― zan, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sisyphus. Or maybe Yossarian. Ignatius J. Reilly?

― PDAS, Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

harriet the spy.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Come to think of it, I take back my many entries and replace them with someone not quite literary -- though I bought the TV transcripts and they read quite like plays, SO:

EDMUND BLACKADDER, C'EST MOI!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been thinking about this for a while, but now I know the answer that has been here all the time: definetely Rabo Karabekian!(Bluebeard)

― misshajim (strand), Thursday, 23 September 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Gregor Samsa (protagonist in Kafka's The Metamorphosis).

― SRH (Skrik), Thursday, 23 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

savinien cyrano de bergerac.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

right down to the luminescence?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there, he wasn't there again today, I wish that man, that man would go away.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 September 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

C'est votre panache, Cozen

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 23 September 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll stop bugging you, Coz.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 24 September 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend says, "The F. Scott Fitzgerald male". Should I be worried or joyful?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am sad to relate that I have been unable to live up to my youthful desire to live up to Maugham's character Nicholas Garnet in his short story The Facts of Life.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Ann,

Unfortunately (for me) I sometimes feel like Baldrick.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Balthazar B, a shy and elegant young man.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ann,
Unfortunately (for me) I sometimes feel like Baldrick.

-- Michael White (Sanmichel...), September 24th, 2004.

Yeh, I'm too sneaky and nasty to be Baldrick, heh heh heh.

Yeah, I often feel like Cyrano too!

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hm... does reading too much give you multiple-personality disorder?

Books are definitely at fault for the fact that I keep forgetting I'm supposed to be a girl.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob in High Fidelity, for better or worse...

― David Bannister (David Bannister), Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm some sad characyer from The Dubliners, or maybe I'm Stephen Dedalus.

― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

*character

― Fred (Fred), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A combination of Tita in Like Water for Chocolate, Idgie from Fried Green Tomatoes.

― Gina Ruiz (Gina Ruiz), Thursday, 7 October 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I tink i most relate to the lady of shalott, i have ben shelter and need to go out and take more a risk even if it mean my death

― Sango Hoshiko Sho, Monday, 22 May 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Jude the Obscure, Heathcliff, Jay Gatsby . . . the timeless frustrated chumps.

― david foster vollman, Monday, 22 May 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Humpty Dumpty.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Meursault. Buck Mulligan sometimes.

― Brian Furry (noodle vague), Monday, 22 May 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/rothsoc/sabbath.jpg

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Gordon Walker (Children of Light by Robert Stone)

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Right, sure, none of you bastards say Portnoy?

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 25 May 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)

sabbath is portnoy for grown-ups

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 25 May 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

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