Question
Which fictional character do you identify with?
Given Prime Minister Gordon Browns fairly stunning positive spin on the idea that people identify him with Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, which characters from literature do you identify with, and why?
Answer
Different characters for different stages of my life. Sometimes Ive identified with Coleman from Roths quotHuman Stainquot, because I wasnt really one thing or another. Like him, I avoided choices, until one chose me. Ive identified with Sabina from Kunderas quotUnbearable Lightness of Beingquot in a similarity in thinking about men and marriage, in the past. Often lines from Hardys quotTess come to mind when, like her, I think quotWere all like characters in a book and everything has already been said and done many times beforequot paraphrase. Something of a cynic, on occasion. And then there are my core three Stokers Dracula, Aeschylus furies, and Carrolls Red Queen.
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