NTD:Most Memorable Literary Characters?

[Jen]

Characters make the story for me, there is a lot I can forgive when I am reading, I love books and I love to read just about any genre even if the writing isn't necessarily the best, but if I find the characters thin, or completely unbelievable I tend to be put off. Many writers are saved from complete mediocrity because they can create likeable, or memorable characters....and other writers who have great ideas are hurt by the fact that they just can't.

So who are a few of your favorite literary characters, those that you really believed, those that you could relate to, or those that fascinated you and kept you reading?

[HNT]

Oh an, there are a lot of 'em.

Falstaff
Willie Loman
Iago
Gregor Samsa
Saleem Sinai
Oskar Matzerath
Huckleberry Finn (and Jim of course)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Ah well, there are a heck of a lot of 'em. That was just a few of my personal faves

[Jen]

A few of mine....

Victor Frankenstein and his creation
Atticus Finch
Blanche DuBois
Iago
Cathy, Samuel Hamilton , and Caleb Trask (East of Eden)
Harry D'Amour
Pie 'Oh' Pah
Samwise Gamgee
Stu Redman, Larry Underwood and Nick Andros
William 'Stuttering Bill' Denbrough
Jane Eyre
Sick Boy
Edmond Dantès
John Yossarian
Charlie Parker
Repairman Jack
Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Plum

[FireStar]

Elizabeth Bennett
Hamlet
Harry Potter
Van Helsing
Achilles
Odyessus
Just to name a few

[CT]

Great thread, my illiterate ass somehow missed it up until now.

Gilgamesh comes to mind as a history major.

Captain Ahab

Robinson Crueso

The Old Man (and the Sea)

Johnny Tremaine

Whoever that kid was in the book Hatchet, loved it as a kid.

And the kid in the book Dear Mr. Henshaw

Read those last 2 years ago as a kid and can't remember the names of the main character.