Characters We Love
Last week several readers talked to me, just liked I hope they would, about their favorite character from WP. So far, Sarah is in the lead. It got me thinking about characters we love. Long after the last page is closed, certain characters continue to inhabit our minds and hearts.
I thought about characters I’ve loved. When I was growing up, somewhere between 4th grade and high school, I fell in love with the March sisters: Amy, Beth, Meg and Jo. Does anyone read Little Women anymore? Jo was my favorite, the apple- eating, short –tempered, would -be -writer who was always getting into to scrapes, but I loved all of them. They were like the sisters I never had. Dorothy Sayer’s Harriet Vane probably tops my list of favorite female characters. Cassandra Mortmain of I Captured the Castle stays with me too. And of course, there’s Peter Whimsy himself, Sherlock Holmes and George R.R. Martin’s, Jon Snow.
When I asked my daughter she mentioned, Sydney Carton, Isabelle Archer and Dorothy Dunnet’s Lymond. I know my son would include Orson Scott Card’s, Ender.
Now it’s your chance. Send me the name of a character who has captured your imagination and why. I’ll add to the blog.