Which fictional character has the shittiest life?

[MardyBra]

Caught a bit of Les Mis on telly last night. Fantine has it pretty bad but she does get to do a stint as an angel.

Ronnie Mitchell

Several already mentioned.

Will add Edmond Dantès. Though in the film life works out better for him than the book.

The first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre. Not the worst ever but I don't think she was having much fun

Also Jane's friend who dies. Basically lives in an orphanage and dies young of consumption.

That rabbit in Peppa pig! She must never sleep the amount of bloody jobs she has.

Everyone in a Hardy novel.

Everyone in A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. The most unhappy, desperate book I've ever read.

I thought the books were called something else, InSightMars and Game of Thrones was just the TV prog (or "Tits n Dragons as it's known in this house)

The father in The Road by Cormac Macarthy .

That is a brilliant but grim book.à

Theon Greyjoy beats all comers. Closely followed by Sansa Stark.

definitely Jude.

Or Justine in the Marquis de Sade Justine.

Winston Smith in 1984.

Or Hetty in Adam Bede. Pretty teenager keen on fashion, trapped in the narrow confines of a country village, falls for the squire's son, gets upduffed by him and resorts to desperate measures, getting the cruel punishment of the times. The unmasking of the truth is a properly traumatic read.

Ethan Frome had it pretty badly. Misery, misery, misery, excitement, misery, misery, misery.

Odd Thomas.

Almost all of them in A Fine Balance.

Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights has quite a crap time.

The second wife in Rebecca ... and her husband - both have a crap time of it , living in Rebecca’s shadow . Mrs Danvers always seemed a rather tragic character too ; so devoted to a dead woman .

Also George and Lennie (Of Mice and Men) ... I remember wondering at school how George would cope with his decision at the end .

Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire) and Valerie (The Bell Jar) - I remember shuddering at Valerie with horn shaped scars from her lobotomy, delighted to be living in the asylum with no plans to leave, devoid entirely of any fight.

Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights until he gets with Catherine Linton

Harry Potter and Will from Goodnight Mr Tom have happy endings though. Poor old Jude and Sue and their kids have none. Or Tess.

Theon Greyjoy is a good shout too.

Andy Dufresne also gets a happy ending. And Beth March has a nice life up until the whole teenage death thing.

Tom. Jerry is an arsehole!

All the handmaids

Boxer in Animal Farm. His ending broke my young heart.

Catherine Dollanganger from flowers in the attic.

Some highbrow ones, in ascending order:
Werther
Prometheus
Sisyphus

And a lowbrow one but the worst of all:
Kenny from Southpark.

Sophie from Sophie's Choice.