Literary Characters

**Literary characters** are individuals who have become part of the collective consciousness due to their appearances in works of written fiction.

## Individuals

Jay Gatsby *The Great Gatsby*, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

Holden Caulfield *The Catcher in the Rye*, J.D. Salinger, 1951

Humbert Humbert *Lolita*, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

Leopold Bloom *Ulysses*, James Joyce, 1922

Rabbit Angstrom *Rabbit, Run*, John Updike, 1960

Sherlock Holmes *The Hound of the Baskervilles*, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902

Atticus Finch *To Kill A Mockingbird*, Harper Lee, 1960

Molly Bloom *Ulysses*, James Joyce, 1922

Stephen Dedalus *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*, James Joyce, 1916

Lily Bart *The House of Mirth*, Edith Wharton, 1905

Holly Golightly *Breakfast at Tiffany's*, Truman Capote, 1958

Gregor Samsa *The Metamorphosis*, Franz Kafka, 1915

The Invisible Man *Invisible Man*, Ralph Ellison, 1952

Lolita Hayes (b. 1935) *Lolita*, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

Aureliano Buendia, *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

Clarissa Dalloway, *Mrs. Dalloway*, Virginia Woolf, 1925

George Smiley, *Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy*, John LeCarre, 1974
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Bigger Thomas *Native Son*, Richard Wright, 1940

Nick Adams *In Our Time*, Ernest Hemingway, 1925

Yossarian *Catch-22*, Joseph Heller, 1961

Scarlett O'Hara *Gone With the Wind*, Margaret Mitchell, 1936

Scout Finch *To Kill A Mockingbird*, Harper Lee, 1960

Philip Marlowe *The Big Sleep*, Raymond Chandler, 1939

Kurtz *Heart of Darkness*, Joseph Conrad, 1902

Winnie the Pooh *Winnie the Pooh*, A.A. Milne, 1926

Alex Portnoy *Portnoy's Complaint*, Philip Roth, 1969

Jeeves *My Man Jeeves*, P.G. Wodehouse, 1919

Marcel *Remembrance of Things Past*, Marcel Proust, 1913-1927

Toad *The Wind in the Willows*, Kenneth Grahame, 1908

The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss, 1955

Peter Pan *The Little White Bird*, J.M. Barrie, 1902

Augustus McCrae *Lonesome Dove*, Larry McMurtry, 1985

Sam Spade *The Maltese Falcon*, Dashiell Hammett, 1930

Stephen Maturin *Master and Commander*, Patrick O'Brian, 1969

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943

Jean Brodie *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*, Muriel Spark, 1961

Jake Barnes *The Sun Also Rises*, Ernest Hemingway, 1926

Phoebe Caulfield *The Catcher in the Rye*, J.D. Salinger, 1951

Big Brother *1984*, George Orwell, 1949

Tom Ripley *The Talented Mr. Ripley*, Patricia Highsmith, 1955

Seymour Glass, *Nine Stories*, J.D. Salinger, 1953

Dean Moriarty, *On the Road*, Jack Kerouac, 1957

Charlotte *Charlotte's Web*, E.B. White, 1952

T.S. Garp *The World According to Garp*, John Irving, 1978

Nick and Nora Charles *The Thin Man*, Dashiell Hammett, 1934

James Bond *Casino Royale*, Ian Fleming, 1953

Benjy, *The Sound and the Fury*, William Faulkner, 1929

Mary Katherine Blackwood, *We Have Always Lived in the Castle*, Shirley Jackson, 1962

Claudine, *Claudine at School*, Colette, 1900

George Follansbee Babbitt, *Babbitt*, Sinclair Lewis, 1922

Tarzan, *Tarzan of the Apes*, Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914

Nathan Zuckerman, *My Life As a Man*, Philip Roth, 1979

Arthur "Boo" Radley, *To Kill A Mockingbird*, Harper Lee, 1960

Joseph K. *The Trial*, Franz Kafka, 1925

Yuri Zhivago, *Dr. Zhivago*, Boris Pasternak, 1957

Harry Potter, *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone*, J.K. Rowling, 1998

Margaret Schlegel, *Howards End*, E.M. Forster, 1910

Jim Dixon, *Lucky Jim*, Kingsley Amis, 1954

Lennie Small, *Of Mice and Men*, John Steinbeck, 1937

Mr. Biswas, *A House for Mr. Biswas*, V.S. Naipaul, 1961

Alden Pyle, *The Quiet American*, Graham Greene, 1955

Kimball "Kim" O'Hara, *Kim*, Rudyard Kipling, 1901

Newland Archer, *The Age of Innocence*, Edith Wharton, 1920

Clyde Griffiths, *An American Tragedy*, Theodore Dreiser, 1925

Eeyore, *Winnie the Pooh*, A.A. Milne, 1926

Quentin Compson, *The Sound and the Fury*, William Faulkner, 1929

Charlie Marlow, *Heart of Darkness*, Joseph Conrad, 1902

Celie, *The Color Purple*, Alice Walker, 1982

Augie March, *The Adventures of Augie March*, Saul Bellow 1953