QotD: Fictional Friend
What fictional character do you relate to most and why?
To be honest I think that which character I relate to most is entirely changeable and dependant on what's going on in my life and my mood at the time. Also I guess the beauty of fiction is that you often get to see the world from someone else's perspective and be privy to someone's inner feelings and opinions. In that way you empathise with a character you might not actually have all that much in common to, you "relate" with what they're going through at times without necessarily having experienced it yourself.
That in mind, there isn't one character I've related most to. But characters I've related to over the years have included:
Nick from The Great Gatsby:
The way in which Nick was appalled by the shallow, hollow nature of his society and the selfish, irresponsible nature of his acquintances at the end of the novel mirrors how I think we have all thought about the world at some stage, in some moment of madness or after witnessing or being party to some thoughtless deed, or even during some moment of clarity surrounded by pumping music and shallow materialism at the mall.
Marie Antionette from Sophia Coppolla's film:
The feeling of being trapped by a society based the external is one many experience. Also the way in which Marie really has no control and little real meaning in her life was sympathetic, for much of the film she really is little more than a show pony.
