# What literary character are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447 "2013-09-22T15:28:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/41 "2013-09-22T22:31:45Z")
Here’s what I got: > [@](#): > > You are Sherlock Holmes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous mystery series. You are smart, witty, and love a challenge. You use rationality and reason in all things and don’t let your heart rule your head. You are measured and stable and you don’t let people push you around. ---
**Author:** ![Jennyrosity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@Jennyrosity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennyrosity)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/42 "2013-09-22T23:02:40Z")
Juliet. _Waves at Jimmy Chitwood_ ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/43 "2013-09-22T23:10:54Z")
How is’t, my soul? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/44 "2013-09-22T23:44:03Z")
Romeo ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/45 "2013-09-23T03:03:42Z")
Not crazy about quizzes that make you specify gender, but I’m either Hermione or Sherlock, depending on which gender I choose. Given the choice, I think I’ll take Hermione since she can do real magic! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/46 "2013-09-23T03:11:25Z")
I got Hermione as well. Obviously that’s wrong. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Breen11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Breen11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breen11)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/47 "2013-09-23T04:45:33Z")
I got Peter Pan. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/48 "2013-09-23T05:20:16Z")
Sherlock. #5 was ambiguous, but I took it to ask “what is the most important quality for _other_ people to have?” ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/49 "2013-09-23T08:41:39Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > Karen Blixen. Karen Blixen? She’s not a literary figure, she’s an author. Apart from that, call me Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/50 "2013-09-23T08:52:25Z")
Another Gandalf! [YOU SHALL NOT PASS!](http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2012/279/b/d/you_shall_not_pass_by_entroz-d5gjs4j.png) ---
**Author:** ![xano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/6a8cbe/32.png) [@xano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xano)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/51 "2013-09-23T10:20:51Z")
gandalf ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/52 "2013-09-23T10:55:00Z")
Yet another Hermione. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/53 "2013-09-23T14:09:01Z")
Another Galadriel. Though I never got the Lord of the Rings trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/54 "2013-09-23T15:54:17Z")
I got Sherlock Holmes, which strikes me as better than I deserve. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/55 "2013-09-23T18:28:56Z")
It looks like they just have six character-pairs (one of each gender), and the six answer choices for each question correspond to those character-pairs on a one-to-one basis. Add up the total for each character, and whichever one has the most is your character-pair. Oh, and nobody will be surprised to hear that I’m another Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/56 "2013-09-23T18:56:31Z")
I only answered two or three questions but that was enough to allow the website’s superior powers of deduction to discover which character I am. Elementary! ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/57 "2013-09-23T20:11:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It looks like they just have six character-pairs (one of each gender), and the six answer choices for each question correspond to those character-pairs on a one-to-one basis. Add up the total for each character, and whichever one has the most is your character-pair. > > Oh, and nobody will be surprised to hear that I’m another Sherlock. Let’s see if we can list them: Female: Lucy (Narnia) Galadrial (LotR) Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) Eowyn (LotR) Hermione (HP) Juliet (R and J) Male: Gandalf (LotR) Voldemort (HP) Sherlock (Sherlock) Romeo (RJ) Superman (Superman) Dirk Pitt (Dirk Pitt) Other: Tigger (Winnie Ther Pooh) Did I miss anyone? ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/58 "2013-09-23T20:54:09Z")
Dirk Pitt here… The irony is that years ago Clive Cussler, the creator of Pitt, came into the bookstore I was working at in Denver and autographed one of his books to me writing, “To TV time, my inspiration for Dirk Pitt!” and signed his name. Up until now I thought that was how he signed all of his books. Now by taking this test, I find out he was being honest. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/59 "2013-09-23T21:09:55Z")
No shit. Sherlock. ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-literary-character-are-you/669447/60 "2013-09-23T21:23:46Z")
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