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Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. ....
Top 10 most dislikable characters in fiction From Tom Wolfe’s ‘master of the universe’ to George Eliot’s vengeful pedant, these are some of the hardest characters in literature to love ‘Proud of his chin’ … Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy and Melanie Griffith as Maria in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros/Sportsphoto Ltd ‘Proud of his chin’ … Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy and Melanie Griffith as Maria in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990). Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros/Sportsphoto Ltd LouiseCandlish Wed 30 Dec 2020 05.00 EST Last modified on Fri 5 Feb 2021 12.20 EST At reader events to promote my novels, I find that one question crops up more often than any other: ‘Why do you write such dislikable characters?’ Well, I usually reply, swallowing my defensiveness, don’t all novelists write characters who are dislikable to ....