Andy Dufrense(sp?) from “Shawshank Redemption”. He made the best of a horrendous situation. And like most good men in fiction, made out in the end.
The doctor in “Survivor Type”. Just like Pizza the Hutt, “he ate himself to death”. Actually he was saved at the end (or at least we are led to believe).
Stu Redman in “The Stand”. This is my favorite novel. I’ve read it 5 times. All the characters are perfectly written. The story is great and I always seem to catch a head cold when I read it. Stu is the “everyman” stuck in a difficult position. He acts the way we all hope we would act in a disasterous situation.
dead0man
from 'The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"
Full of honesty, persistance, bravery, innocence – you can’t help but root for that 9 year old girl.
A fine fine character.
A must read.
Can I get an AMEN?? A-freaking-men!
Also, David Morse as Brutal in The Green Mile. I swear, I fell in love with that character while watching the movie.
I also like Morty in Secret Window, Secret Garden. His guilt made him go crazy. What an interesting guy.
And Ray from The Long Walk. And Nick from The Stand.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Andy Dufresne, from what is probably the best movie made from a Stephen King novel. I thought Tim Robbins did a great job with the character; my only minor quibble might be that Robbins was a little too good-looking for Andy; I thought Andy was a fairly nondescript guy in all ways, and turns out to have immense depths beneath the surface.
(As an aside, I was just looking something up in one of Stevie’s books, and I had to read three chapters before I could put it down again. You can say what you like about him, but the man knows how to write.)
Rose - I’d forgotten all about that! Maybe I’d better re-read The Talisman before getting into Black House.
featherlou - I never look things up in one of King’s books unless I have lots of time to spare, for just that reason. You can pick up any of them, anywhere, and get drawn in again.
Same thing happens with the Stephen King Universe. Fun book.
How has nobody mentioned Carol Gerber and Ted Brautigan from Hearts In Atlantis?
Honestly guys… also, now I forget his name, but the kid who meets Carol in the second mini-novel in that book and learns to be a peacenik. I like him a lot.
LC - Pretending that movie never happened.
I read it about 10 years ago. One of the few parts I remember is Wolf driving the limo listening to “Run Through the Jungle.” And the fact that Wolf is nearsighted. 
BTW: I’d love to see The Talisman made into a movie. Of course, they’d have to get Morgan Freeman to play the handyman.
I’ll also take Ray from The Long Walk
And forever one of my favorites is Wolf…right here and now.
Your memory is almost correct. 
Jack’s Wolf was killed at Sunshine Gardener’s boy’s home. The Wolf that was driving the limo at the end of the book was Wolf’s littermate (whose name may also have been “Wolf”, but he wasn’t the same Wolf as Jack’s Wolf).
Also, I was talking to Wicked Blue last night about Wolf and Tom Cullen being Twinners, and now I have her all confounded. It’s a good theory in that the characters seem similar, but if Wolf was Tom Cullen’s Twinner, then when Jack pulled Wolf along into our world, Wolf would have inhabited Tom Cullen’s body (wherever he may have been at the time) instead of being with Jack. This what you saw happening when Morgan Sloat switched back and forth…either MS occupied Morgan of Orris’ body, or MoO occupied MS’. I believe that Wolf was of a singular nature, just as Jack was. When he was in our world, he wasn’t in The Territories, and vice versa.
Jadis ← Stephen King geek 
Oh, then sorry, Wicked Blue.
Anyway, I thought of some more. I agree, I liked Harold Lauder, too, JET. Well, after he became more thin, and svelte. And FisherQueen, I liked Nadine Cross also. What is it with me and all the ethically challenged characters?
Cujo was an awesome character, I have to say. He was just doing everything in his power to be a “good dog”- wasn’t his fault his owners didn’t take him up to Bangor to get him his rabies shots. That whole book was full of good character sketches, I thought. Even Steve Kemp- though anyone else find it odd the guy had SK’s almost first name, and his initials? It’s like he was trying to place himself inside the book.
Anyone else remember that Halloween episode of Quantum Leap? You know, the one with a red & white '58 Plymouth, a dog named “Cujo”, and a neighbor boy named “Stephen King”?
Jadis…
Ok…I was thinking about it, and I think I have an answer. You were absolutely right about Morgan Sloat and Morgan of Orris.
But…
Wolf could be Tom Cullen’s twinner. Jack Sawyer’s “reality” isn’t the same as Tom Cullen’s. Jack lives on “our” earth/reality, and Tom Cullen lives on “Captain Trips” earth/reality.
The Talisman takes place in 1981. Black House takes place in 2001. The Stand takes place in 1990 (according to the expanded re-release, I know the original took place in the 70s or 80s…doesn’t really matter). If Tom and Jack both lived in the same reality, Black House couldn’t have happened. OK, I guess it could have happened, but I find it hard to believe that just 10 years after a plague that killed off 99.4% of the earth’s population that everything would be back to normal. Now, in the Stephen King reality, there are infinite worlds that exist simultaneously. He mentions this concept in The Talisman, Black House, and The Gunslinger series. That means that Tom Cullen and Wolf could be twinners, but Tom did not exist in Jack’s world, so, yes, Wolf could ‘flip’ freely between the two.
Make sense?
Rose