Three characters you wish were real so you could meet them:
1. Nero Wolfe, although he probably wouldn’t meet with me since I’m a woman. He’s somewhat gynephobic.
2. Elizabeth Bennett
3. Father Tim of Mitford
Three characters you would like to be:
1. Anne of Green Gables.
2. Jane Marple.
3. Madeleine. “To the tiger in the zoo, Madeleine just said, ‘Pooh, pooh.'”
Three characters who scare you:
1. Gulliver of Gulliver’s Travels.
2. Tom and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.
3. Steerforth in David Copperfield.
Three characters you would welcome if they came courting your daughter:
1. Lord Peter Wimsey.
2. Curdie.
3. Faramir.
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I think Lord Peter is a bit too man-of-the-worldish for me to want him as a son-in-law–although I would definitely have him on the to-meet list. Curdie and Faramir, definitely.
What a great list of questions.
Oh yes, Faramir! Now I have to think of 2 more.
Three characters you wish were real so you could meet them:
1. Kate Fansler from the Amanda Cross mysteries.
2. All right. I’ll say it. Harry Potter.
3. Gandalf the Grey.
Three characters you would like to be:
1. When I was eleven, Trixie Belden or Harriet the Spy.
2. When I was twenty-something… hmmm. I don’t remember wanting to be a character, only a creator of characters. (*wry grin*) Joan Didion was one I wanted to be. Joyce Carol Oates, of course. Jane Hamilton.
3. Now? Grandma Dowdel. I want to be Grandma Dowdel when I grow up.
Three characters who scare you:
1. Uriah Heep doesn’t scare me, I guess, but he disgusts me. I agree with you on Steerforth.
2. The adults in the His Dark Materials trilogy.
3. Barbara Covett in What Was She Thinking [Notes on a Scandal].
Three characters you would welcome if they came courting your daughter:
1. Ronald Weasley.
2. Jimmy Quinn (The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell).
3. Reuven Malther (The Chosen by Chaim Potok). Quite unlikely, of course, but there it is.
I loved Gulliver! He just seemed to me what growing up meant.
I think Lord Peter is a bit too man-of-the-worldish for me to want him as a son-in-law–although I would definitely have him on the to-meet list. Curdie and Faramir, definitely.
What a great list of questions.
Oh yes, Faramir! Now I have to think of 2 more.
Three characters you wish were real so you could meet them:
1. Kate Fansler from the Amanda Cross mysteries.
2. All right. I’ll say it. Harry Potter.
3. Gandalf the Grey.
Three characters you would like to be:
1. When I was eleven, Trixie Belden or Harriet the Spy.
2. When I was twenty-something… hmmm. I don’t remember wanting to be a character, only a creator of characters. (*wry grin*) Joan Didion was one I wanted to be. Joyce Carol Oates, of course. Jane Hamilton.
3. Now? Grandma Dowdel. I want to be Grandma Dowdel when I grow up.
Three characters who scare you:
1. Uriah Heep doesn’t scare me, I guess, but he disgusts me. I agree with you on Steerforth.
2. The adults in the His Dark Materials trilogy.
3. Barbara Covett in What Was She Thinking [Notes on a Scandal].
Three characters you would welcome if they came courting your daughter:
1. Ronald Weasley.
2. Jimmy Quinn (The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell).
3. Reuven Malther (The Chosen by Chaim Potok). Quite unlikely, of course, but there it is.
I loved Gulliver! He just seemed to me what growing up meant.
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Love the new question — you’ve got me thinking.
Diane