Not sure why this came to mind a couple of days ago, but I really haven’t been able to come up with any for myself. I’m thinking primarily about mindset, how they react to things/people, and attributes other than external appearance.
I guess I’m too nondescript to be worth telling a story about. Maybe I should reread some Dickens. There HAS to be a minor character in one of his books…
I aspire to emulate Zonker Harris and/or The Dude.
I can’t think of ONE character that embodies me…
I am sort of cross of Generation X slacker Philip j. Fry from Futurama combined with the riddled with anxiety/phobia prone Adrian Monk from Monk.
EDIT: I did think of another character I resemble personality wise—
Bill Dauterive from King of The Hill. (I also most physical resemble him at this point as well.)
Mix all three the above together and that would be ME
My wife claims I am Oblomov reincarnated. I am not in the mood to disagree, too much hassle.
A lot of people say Jeff Bridges looks like me, and they’ll usually cite The Dude as an example.
I’m not totally 100% dislike Jeff Albertson.
One of my high school English teachers once told me I reminded her of Bartleby, the Scrivener.
As for how I see myself these days in terms of mindset, reactions to things/people, and attributes other than external appearance, I would say I’m kinda like a sandworm.
In the early 1990s, I bore a strong resemblance to Daria Morgendorffer, in more ways than one.
I’ve always identified pretty hard with Lisa Simpson. I was this extremely academic and morally self-righteous child plonked in the middle of a conservative-leaning working class family who didn’t understand me. And I’m a Buddhist.
God. Nobody listens to me.
Okay then, Josephine Anwhistle. Seriously.
Lately I have been watching and re-watching Amadeus. I think it’s because I relate to (the fictional) Salieri coming to realize he’s a mediocrity.
Adrian Mole. I was the same age as him during his heydey, and my life continues to be just as pathetic as his evolved into.
John Galt.
Well, I do often feel that folks are setting up footballs for me to kick and then yanking them away at the last second.
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Mole. From The Wind in the Willows
I could always very well relate to the protagonists in Franz Kafka’s novels “The Trial” and “The Castle”. I often found myself in jobs where I felt the same frustrations, absurdities and Sisyphean struggles that led to nothing. It didn’t help that I have a history of mental health problems, which often were caused by jobs that stressed me out. I retired three years ago and still have regular nightmares where I find myself in Kafkaesque professional situations of having to fulfill impossible, meaningless tasks that lead to nothing. After I read the excellent three-volume Kafka biography by Reiner Stach, I understood that Kafka’s literary nightmares were inspired by his own life, so I can not only relate to his characters, but also to his own struggles in life.
That’s another character I could instantly relate to, though I never had the guts or the strength to tell anybody “I would prefer not to”. The story is a clear predecessor of Kafka’s work, and I wonder if Kafka knew the story.
This is kind of awful, but I’ve had several people (who don’t know each other) tell me I remind them of Jackie from That 70’s Show. They say it’s a combination of the way I look and the way I speak. (Nobody has ever said that it’s because I’m a brat like her, but it’s always possible that they think it and don’t say it!)
In terms of personality, I would say Enola Holmes. LOL
My Wife says I remind her of Jim Halpert in ‘The Office’. I take that as quite a compliment.
I can be surprisingly brave in some situations. I am an abject coward in others. So, I’m going with Cryano De Bergerac