Which character from literature do you think is most like you?

Becky Brandon (neé Bloomwod [IYKYK]) of Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. With a touch of George Hurstwood from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie thrown in.
 

Walter Mitty.

Always fantasizing about going on some great adventure but never following through on it.

For a long while it was something like hiking the Appalachen Trail, or Bicycling accoss America from sea to shining sea. But now at my age those would be too demanding physically. So now I just dream about packing up my motorcycle along with $10,000 cash and my .357 Magnum and heading west.
 
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Regarding literature I have not thought about it.
But regarding opera this is the character my dark soul likes:

Scarpia, the scoundrel of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" (1900).

 
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An author, now deceased, named Patrick McManus wrote humorous outdoor stories based on his youth in rural Idaho. His central character in these yarns was a boy called Pat. His stories were populated by characters such as his pal Crazy Eddie Muldoon, a reprobate old mountain man Retch Sweeney, his grandmother, mother, an elder sister called The Troll and various other rural characters.

I was Pat in my boyhood. I pulled many of the stunts McManus describes and knew people like the ones in his stories. He was the only author who routinely left me helpless with laughter.
 
Trade said:
Walter Mitty.

Always fantasizing about going on some great adventure but never following through on it.

For a long while it was something like hiking the Appalachen Trail, or Bicycling accoss America from sea to shining sea. But now at my age those would be too demanding physically. So now I just dream about packing up my motorcycle along with $10,000 cash and my .357 Magnum and heading west.
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We should form a Walter Mitty club, although I doubt we wouldn't do much with it once we thought of it.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
Dorthea Brooks of “Middlemarch” by George Elliot. Ardent, idealistic, steadfast

And Anne Elliot of “Persuasion” by J Austen…. Quiet, hates the limelight but good in an emergency.
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Two of my favorites. Dorothea is just about perfect and Anne is my second favorite Austen character after Fanny of Mansfield Park.

Jane Eyre is my very favorite character for her moral strength and courage. She quietly stands up for others and is completely honest even when she knows she'll be punished. I love the moment when she has just found out Rochester is married, he begs her to stay, and we know how much she loves him, how she would always have wealth and security as his mistress, but she believes it would be wrong so she walks out into the world alone, with no friends or home to go to.

I'm glad to see Jude Falwy get a mention, Jude the Obscure isn't read enough. My user name on a TV forum is JudyObscure but I don't think many people get it.

I'm not like any of them though. I'm more like Lily Bart from "The House of Mirth." a little bit out of step with the crowd.
 
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