Which Literary Character Would You Be?

[#1]

Mrs. Ramsay, and Lily Briscoe.....name any character of VW's....it's complex.  As she, herself is/was.

[#2]

I will be the first to say Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, but I bet I won't be the last.

[#3]

As a kid I wanted to be a boxcar child, or perhaps Nancy Drew, but I think I most identify with Jo from LITTLE WOMEN.

[#4]

Oh, it's no contest, I'd love to be Mary Russell! Or. . .Sid Halley. Wait, maybe Stephanie Plum. Hm...

[#5]

As a child, I wanted to be either Anne of Green Gables or Dickon in The Secret Garden (the animal thing).

With BostonBookGirl abou Jo from LIttle Women, but as an adult, I would have to be Orlando - Virginia Woolf.   For too many reasonsto mention. 

[#6]

Oh, thank you everyone, these are wonderful. Dickon! Elizabeth Bennet Darcy! Hmmm. I've said before that I've more than a soupcon of the tragic Lily Bart about me, but it's mainly in terms of making self-centered decisions...

Keep 'em coming! 

[#7]

I would have to add any character anyone could think of that does not type well first thing in the morning.  Eep. 

[#8]

What a great question! If we are going truly literary, I would say Marie was right--she wasn't the first and wasn't the last, I would be Elizabeth Bennet. 

As a kid I wanted to be Nancy Drew and/or Trixie Belden.

If we go more current--I always wish to be one of the crime fighters--either Kay Scarpetta (Cornwell), Temperance Brennan (Kathy Reichs' Bones series), or Alexandra Cooper (Linda Fairstein). Probably the trump card would be Alexandra's because she has a house on Martha's Vineyard!

[#9]

OK. Permanent Paper and others, if we get to pick literary and contemporary, I need to get back in here and claim my spot as any character is any Sarah Dessen novel.

Man, can she create characters, especially boys! I want to date every boy she writes, but especially Owen Armstrong from Just Listen.

[#10]

Truthfully, I'm like Homer from THE CIDER HOUSE RULES.

I would be Scarlet O'Hara--plucky, deteremined to get what she wants/needs (despite the cost), not really worried about what others think.

[#11]

As a kid, and still, want to be Harriet the Spy.  In fact, more like Jane Eyre ...

[#12]

I would like to be Hiro Protagonist (Stephenson, Snow Crash), but more often feel like Gregor Samsa (Kafka, Metamorphosis). Such is life.

[#13]

Eloise at the Plaza!

[#14]

You know I can't answer this one.

For the duration of a book, while I read and any dreams I have durring the period, I am the protagonist. It makes commonality hard afterwards for me.

[#15]

Elizabeth Bennet...who has read that books that HASN'T wanted to be her? She's smart and witty and, of course, she gets Mr. Darcy.  Or Jane Eyre, because there is a real example of a smart woman who goes out and gets what she wants.

[#16]

When I was young, I always wanted to be Claudia in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.  I thought running away from home to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and solving a mystery about artwork sounded very adventurous.

[#17]

I think I'm more like Hannah the Fool from The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory.

However I'd like to be Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. She kicks serious butt.

[#18]

i would definatley be Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde's novel.. A literary detective; could there be any better job for a book worm?

[#19]

I'd be Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, that's what I seem to be so far. I am a sharp, intelligent, classy fellow.