Have you ever been compared to a character in literature?

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Have you ever been compared to a character in literature?
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I have compared myself to many... in most cases only to certain traits.

But that's only natural.

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But have you been comapred to one by someone else?

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I have been compared to Bill Sykes.

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I guess I'm not very well-read. Add that to my long list of deficiencies.

Who was Bill Sykes?

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Bill Sykes was the ringleader of the band of little theives in Oliver Twist.

I've never been compared to a fictional character. I'm just sticking around to see who has....

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Oh. That was Fagin, not Bill Sykes who I think was just a bad-ass in the same book.

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Thanks for the info, boomerang. I really should read more.
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I've had some rather unflattering comparisons made.

One was to Mildred, from Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage' (not a fair comparison; I never leeched off the guy who said that)

Another was to Harry Haller in Hesse's 'Steppenwolf'

The last was to Smilla in Hoeg's 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'.

The Smilla comparison I don't get, really. I think the most accurate comparison was to Harry Haller.

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Edited for spelling.

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I've been compared to Bullseye! Laughing

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You know that cockroach in Kafka's Metamorphoses? Well never mind that but I have been compared to the Alan Arkin character in Simon.

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At times I've thought of myself as Kafka's cockroach...

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Who was Bullseye?

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Bullseye was Bill Sykes's dog Laughing

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primergray wrote:

Thanks for the info, boomerang. I really should read more.
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I've had some rather unflattering comparisons made.

One was to Mildred, from Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage' (not a fair comparison; I never leeched off the guy who said that)

Another was to Harry Haller in Hesse's 'Steppenwolf'

The last was to Smilla in Hoeg's 'Smilla's Sense of Snow'.

The Smilla comparison I don't get, really. I think the most accurate comparison was to Harry Haller.

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Edited for spelling.

You've been compared to a female and a male character? Harry Haller in "Steppenwolf"? You're not the guy who was sniping cars in Columbus are you?

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coluber2001 wrote:

You've been compared to a female and a male character? Harry Haller in "Steppenwolf"? You're not the guy who was sniping cars in Columbus are you?

I think the comparison was made because of similarities in personality traits, not physical attributes. In the same way my mother would sometimes say in exasperation, 'you're just like your father!' The person who made the comparison was my college boyfriend.

BTW - The Mildred character in 'Of Human Bondage' was based on a male in 'real life'.

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I've often been compared to Jesus Christ.

Why just yesterday, one of my golfing partners said, "Jesus Christ, will you please shut up while I am putting."

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