Tell us your favorite characters and which books they’re from:
Ariadne Oliver from various Agatha Christie mysteries, Lotty Wilkins from The Enchanted April, Mrs. Smiling from Cold Comfort Farm, Toto from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Berenice Sadie Brown from The Member of the Wedding, Mr. Bucktrout from All Passion Spent, Ruth Wilcox from Howard’s End, Cedric Hampton from Love in a Cold Climate, Babette Hersant from Babette’s Feast, Grandmamma & Luke from The Witches, Mrs. Moore from A Passage to India, Mrs. Oldknow, Tolley & Ping from Green Knowe, Cleery and Knobs from Magic in the Alley, Thomas Holbrook from Cranford, Roger Mifflin and Helen McGill from Parnassus on Wheels, Theophilus North from the novel of the same name, Eleanor Lavish, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Beebe, the Miss. Allens’ and Freddie Honeychurch from A Room with a View, Huckleberry Finn, Daniel Peel (aka Parson Peel) from Patience & Sarah, Anna Madrigal from Tales of the City, Mr. Tumnus from The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe, Cousin Sook from A Christmas Memory (even though she isn’t a fictional character).
Is it odd that so many of my favorite characters are not protagonists but merely featured players in the narrative?
Ariadne Oliver from various Agatha Christie mysteries, Lotty Wilkins from The Enchanted April, Mrs. Smiling from Cold Comfort Farm, Toto from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Berenice Sadie Brown from The Member of the Wedding, Mr. Bucktrout from All Passion Spent, Ruth Wilcox from Howard’s End, Cedric Hampton from Love in a Cold Climate, Babette Hersant from Babette’s Feast, Grandmamma & Luke from The Witches, Mrs. Moore from A Passage to India, Mrs. Oldknow, Tolley & Ping from Green Knowe, Cleery and Knobs from Magic in the Alley, Thomas Holbrook from Cranford, Roger Mifflin and Helen McGill from Parnassus on Wheels, Theophilus North from the novel of the same name, Eleanor Lavish, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Beebe, the Miss. Allens’ and Freddie Honeychurch from A Room with a View, Huckleberry Finn, Daniel Peel (aka Parson Peel) from Patience & Sarah, Anna Madrigal from Tales of the City, Mr. Tumnus from The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe, Cousin Sook from A Christmas Memory (even though she isn’t a fictional character).
Is it odd that so many of my favorite characters are not protagonists but merely featured players in the narrative?