Allusions – Novels & Literary Characters

 

 

·      1984 - Winston Smith

·      A Streetcar Named Desire – Stanley Kowalski

·      Absalom, Absalom! – Thomas Sutpen

·      Adventures of Huck Finn

·      All the King’s Men – Willie Stark or Jack Burden

·      Babbitt – George F. Babbitt

·      Big Sleep – Philip Marlowe

·      Candide

·      Cannery Row – Doc

·      Catch 22 – Yossarian or Dunbar

·      Crucible – John Proctor

·      Death of a Salesman – Willy Loman

·      Don Quixote

·      East of Eden

·      Ender’s Game – Ender

·      Farmer Boy -  Almanzo Wilder

·      From Here to Eternity - Robert E. Lee Prewitt or First Sgt. Milton Warden

·      Gone With the Wind – Rhett Butler

·      Grapes of Wrath

·      Great Gatsby- Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway

·      Hamlet

·      Heart of Darkness -  Charles Marlow

·      Hound of the Baskervilles – Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson

·      Jane Eyre – Mr. Rochester

·      Kim

·      Light in August – Joe Christmas

·      Lord of the Rings – Gandalf

·      Maltese Falcon – Sam Spade

·      Metamorphosis – Gregor Samsa

·      Moby Dick – Ishmael

·      Native Son – Bigger Thomas

·      Natural – Roy Hobbs

·      Of Mice and Men – George

·      Old Man and the Sea – Santiago

·      Oliver Twist – Fagin

·      One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Randall Patrick McMurphy

·      Pearl Kino

·      Pride and Prejudice – Mr. Darcy

·      Rabbit – Harry Angstrom

·      Sir Lancelot

·      Slaughterhouse Five - Billy Pilgrim

·      Sound and the Fury

·      Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

·      Talented Mr. Ripley – Tom Ripley

·      Tender is the Night – Dick Diver

·      This Side of Paradise Amory Blaine

·      To Kill a Mockingbird – Atticus Finch

·      Tom Jones

·      Trial – Josef K

·      Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Uncle Tom

·      Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – George