What literary character do you identify most with?

As I read more and more books, I find myself identify with various characters more and more closely. When all is said and done, though, I always identify most with Athos, from The Three Musketeers.

How about you?

pinocchio.

Stephanie Plum

Arturo Bandini John Fante 's caracther

Thomas Fowler the cynical journalist in Graham Greene novel The Quiet American

Harimad-sol The Blue Sword

Richard Bach in Illusions.

It's funny. I have never been in the military, but the character who free associated himself to the front of my so-called brain when I saw this question was Yossarian.

Given a few moments of reflection . . . although, obviously, I am not a famous author, the real answer to the question for me is Nathan Zuckerman.

Arthur Dent.

Ignatius J. Reilly

rdurick, I'm sorry. Actually Ignatius was the first person who popped into my head also. He was quickly replaced by Anna Karenina - not much happier unfortunately.

The first character who popped into my head was from Sense and Sensibility, the eldest, Elinor.

Harry Dresden, Storm Front et al.

Emil Sinclair

from Demian by Hermann Hesse

Did I say Nathan Zuckerman? What could I have been thinking?

I really meant Bond.

James Bond.

(Yeah, right.)

Either Konstantin Dmitrich Levin.... or Jake Barnes.

Anna Karenina and The Sun Also Rises, respectively.

R. Daneel Olivaw

I'd like to add as afterthought "Robert Jordan" from For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Looking at this thread directly after coming home from work, I thought "Bartleby", but of course coming home from work is precisely what he doesn't do.

I'm probably somewhere between Georgie Pillson and Jozef K, really...

Scarlett O'Hara. Too many marriages and constantly pissing people off, when I'm really just misunderstood. If only they would do what I tell them and stop whining. Perhaps I'll think about that tomorrow.

Arthur Dent, or possibly the creature from The Doubtful Guest.

#8. now we just have to find you a Ford Prefect and see where that takes you.

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Wherever I go in the universe, whatever adventures present themselves, I feel completely certain that I will be experiencing it all while in my dressing gown.

rdurick, Ignatius J. Reilly?! The name alone makes me laugh out loud. You made my day. He is by far my most favorite of all the flatulent, grotesque, ill-dressed boorish medievilists, in all of literature. That guy is GREAT.

He beats my favorite angst-driven, impotent, broken-hearted lost generation member (Jake Barnes).

He beats James Bond. He even beats the original James Bond, for that matter (the British Bird Watcher Author).

Cassandra from I Capture the Castle

>24 hannahj26:, hannahj26, I love I Capture the Castle - it's a lovely, lovely book.

For me, it's a tie between Mary from The Secret Garden and Hermione from Harry Potter - mostly due to my teensy-weensy problem with stubbornness. Basically I identify with female characters who stamp their feet and throw hissy fits :-)

I have wanted to live in a beautiful old house with an enormous overgrown garden ever since I read The Secret Garden - so, umm, for about 15 years now!

For me it's Jo in Little Women. It's been that way for almost 50 years. Time to get over it? NEVER!

Shadow from American Gods. I hadn't thought about it until a friend of mine told me she kept thinking of me while reading the book.

Hi Elee! I agree. It's my all-time favorite!

I love the secret garden too. It was one of the first "classics" I read as a child. And I liked/like it much better than Alice in Wonderland which I was given around the same time. :) Aside from the death of her parents, I would like to be Mary. Finding the garden was so exciting!

And, who doesn't want to be Hermione!

A character from the Hare and the Tortoise - guess which one!

- TT

The Hare, obviously, TT ;-)

>28 hannahj26:, Hannah, The Secret Garden was the first classic I read too. My copy was given to me by my Mum for my 8th birthday, and it's very dear to me.

>26 UtopianPessimist:, rachelsmdai - that's a good choice too. Little Women is another one of my favourites, and Jo is a wonderful character.

In some ways these female characters are quite similar - they are all strong, independent, loyal, and caring. Three cheers for Cassandra, Mary, Jo, and Hermione and the wonderful authors who created them!

>30 Elee: Elee: Touche!

Rorschach from Watchmen Smart, quiet, saw the true face of the world, very philosophical, i am a lot like him.

Don't be shy, FFortuna. Speak right up.

Surely post 33 is referring to a character in a short story by H.G. Wells and post 34 to one in a novel by Ralph Ellison?

*snerk*

LT seems to be eating my posts... hopefully this one is working? I was voicing my hope that sandalphon didn't share Rorschach's murderous tendencies. Although I have an irrational adoration for Rorschach anyway, so I can hardly judge.

Oh, forsooth, I am the Invisible Woman. FEEL the teen angst...

Lol, kindred spirits are we. But he was not a murderer he was an Antihero (the best kind). Anyway will keep slaughter to minimum:|

No, he wasn't a murderer. But his character and attitude were based on several serial killers. Of course now I can't find the article in which I read that... it was an interview somewhere.

I was going to say Jane Eyre, but to tell the truth I am more like Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper. Keeping all the secrets and fussing over everyone.

I often feel like Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea...all that work and sweat and trying, and I still come home with a half-eaten fish.

If you ever get a chance to read The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty, well, then, you'll know the story of my life.

And on a good day, I'm Eva Luna.