Let’s face it, there are some literary characters that just stick with you. Maybe it’s because you wish they were your best friend, you not-so-secretly would love to do the dirty with them, or you wish you could defenestrate them from the pages of your favorite novels.
And at LD, with perhaps the higher than average percentage of English majors and literary nerds congregated in one place, it’s no wonder we spend our free time playing a rousing game of Kill, Marry, Screw with our most beloved and loathed characters. Who knew there were so many of us who have had a deep desire to do the dastardly George Wickham or had thought about how Jay Gatsby is the type to call out another woman’s name in bed and then weep while climaxing?
So since we had such a grand time over thinking this game, we provide you our results to argue over throughout your working day. We added in a friend category to make it more interesting, and some characters may show up a few times in different categories, but can you really blame us? So click on the photos and start sorting through which literary characters we’d most like to kill, marry, befriend, or screw.
Kill
Holden Caulfield, Catcher in the Rye
Amy March, Little Women
Uriah Heep, David Copperfield
Éponine Thénardier, Les Miserables
Zeena Frome, Ethan Frome
Daisy Buchanan, Great Gatsby
Alec Stoke, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Marianne Dashwood, Sense and Sensibility
Yossarian, Catch-22
Arthur Dimmesdale, Scarlett Letter
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, Romeo & Juliet
Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights
Hamlet, Hamlet
Marry
George Knightley, Emma
Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
Charles Bingley, Pride and Prejudice
Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Captain Wentworth, Persuasion
Theordore “Laurie” Lawrence, Little Women
Gilbert Blythe, Anne of Green Gables
Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre
Legolas, The Lord of the Rings
Professor Bhaer, Little Women
Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby
Befriend
Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind
Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie
Huck Finn, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice
Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre
Jo March, Little Women
Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby
Scout Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
Tristam Shandy, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Behemoth, Master & Margarita
Lucy Pevensie, The Chronicles of Narnia
Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Merry and Pippin, The Lord of the Rings
Screw
Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind
Count Alexei Kirillov Vronsky, Anna Karenina
George Wickham, Pride and Prejudice
Tea Cake, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes
Maxim de Winter, Rebecca
Dean Moriarty, On the Road
John Thornton, North & South
Captain Ahab, Moby Dick
Aragorn, The Lord of the Rings
Gloria Gilbert, The Beautiful and the Damned
Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby
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