Characters in television, film, or books who remind you of people you know, even to the point that you wonder if the author was eavesdropping on their lives…
In Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, there’s a character named Chip who, in his days as a college professor, reminded me an awful lot of a friend of mine–a professor turned administrator.
I read it and kept thinking, “Wow, this is ***** for sure.”