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Books or films with narcissistic characters?

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Biscuitsareme · 20/08/2013 11:37

I've only recently 'discovered' narcissistic behaviour and it's been a real eye-opener to me. Now there are some characters in books and films that really hit me as narcissistic.

I'll go first:

Muriel's Wedding: Muriel's awful awful father

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell: the Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair
(although Strange and Norrell have traits I suppose)

Any more?

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bruffin · 20/08/2013 11:55

Gone with the wind

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DioneTheDiabolist · 20/08/2013 11:57

Wuthering Heights.

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Pawprint · 21/08/2013 13:35

Lolita

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mammadiggingdeep · 21/08/2013 14:03

Daniel cleaver in bridget jones diary.....what a twat.

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NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 21/08/2013 14:06

The Talented Mr Ripley

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NotSuchASmugMarriedNow · 21/08/2013 14:07

oh definitely Scarlett O Hara! She's a classic.

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FatherReboolaConundrum · 21/08/2013 14:28

Sunset Boulevard.

Can't think of any narcissistic characters in Lolita, just a paedophile.

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DragonsAreReal · 21/08/2013 14:30

Rebecca

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FatherReboolaConundrum · 21/08/2013 14:33

Good one Dragons, but which character? All of them, I'd say!

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DragonsAreReal · 21/08/2013 14:34

Oh what's that book called with the awful Constance.
Perfect example of narcissistic behaviour.

The little girls parents die and the sort of aunt takes her on and when she grows up she finds out how awful her sort of aunt was. Her aunt has her traipsing all over America looking for her to. Constance was poor and her dad was having an affair with a rich lady in the country and ends up dead and she grows up in their country house. Argh I need to remember the title and read this book again!

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DontActuallyLikePrunes · 21/08/2013 14:34

I actually thought Muriel (in Muriel's Wedding) was a hideous character, I don't know about narcissistic but definitely a horror.

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DragonsAreReal · 21/08/2013 14:35

The husband, Rebecca and the maid father!!

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FatherReboolaConundrum · 21/08/2013 14:40

Yes, and in the film version, I'd add the cousin and the Second Mrs DeWinter too, plus the woman she's companion to at the start. But then it's Hitchcock and he has a rather jaundiced view of people.

Mrs Norris in Mansfield Park. My English teacher told us to circle every use of the word 'I' by her in the first chapter - the pages were covered in circles!

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TheCrackFox · 21/08/2013 14:47

Tangled

Repunzel' s mum is a grade A narc.

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lalalonglegs · 21/08/2013 14:53

Lola in Charlie and Lola. She's grim.

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Wellwobbly · 21/08/2013 14:58

Citizen Kane.

Gordon Gecko in Wall Street

The mother of the ballerina (played by Barbara Herschey) in Black Swan

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DragonsAreReal · 21/08/2013 15:19

I have never seen the film didn't know there was one. (off to amazon)

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Pawprint · 21/08/2013 15:42

Mommie Dearest written by Joan Crawford's daughter. The book and the very cheesy film.

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TheFallenNinja · 21/08/2013 16:20

cup of gold

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TheFallenNinja · 21/08/2013 16:21

shallow Hal

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vipersnestling · 21/08/2013 16:22

Bruce Anderson in the 44 Scotland Street books

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DontActuallyLikePrunes · 21/08/2013 16:30

My Cousin Rachel, of course (chilling, when you put it down...)

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colafrosties · 21/08/2013 17:01

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Bluestocking · 21/08/2013 17:06

Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron, is a hilarious/bloodcurdling portrait of a narcissist.

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Somethingtothinkabout · 21/08/2013 17:10

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.

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