To ask if there are any literary characters who have made you shout at the book as you are reading?

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I don't mean the ones who are supposed to be the obvious villains, more the ones who do something exasperating or those who do something generally shit when you thought they were ok.

For example, I'm on holiday at the moment reading Tess of the D'urbervilles (as I've never read it, saw it in the library and thought I'd give it a whirl). Angel Clare has just done something to make me say "oh you complete shit" out loud.

The guy in the next tent was a bit startled.

I wanted to punch Angel Clare, the hypocrite! Fanny Price in Mansfield Park gave me the rage, she was so bloody wet!

Agreed on Angel Clare and so many other Hardy characters including Father Time who pretty much broke my heart.

Dorothea Brooke - so many times in Middlemarch.

Pip, in Great Expectations.

I could happily have shaken Amelia in Vanity Fair.

Richard Carstone sacrificing his youth and prospects - squandering his life in expectation of the inheritance in Bleak House.

Clennam's relentless self-effacement and lack of self-efficacy in Little Dorrit.

I wanted to yell at both Kingshaw and Hooper in Hill's King of the Castle.

Yes - I'd like to shout at many characters.

Everyone in 'The Comfort of Strangers' by Ian McEwan. I usually like his books but this one just infuriated me and I wanted to slap the main characters and call them idiots.

Mrs Collins in Pride and Prejudice. I agree with Lizzie when she said she is marrying the most stupid man in England.

Angel Clare is the villain imo.
Recently read ‘The Break’ by Marian Keyes and I yelled at her husband a few times.

Not a classic book but the devil wears prada. How shitty were Andi’s boyfriend and friends to her just because she was devoting a lot of time to work. She had said she had to work all out for one year for Miranda to be made. If her boyfriend and friends can’t support her in that then they are dicks. Especially the boyfriend who was just being a dick because Andi was not devoting all her time to him.

Yes, agree with that Raspberry they were all happy to take free stuff but wouldn't support her

Oooh I've thought of another one, Charles Rider in Brideshead Revisired, what an absolute self centered knob. Especially when he scuttles off to Mass at Christmas leaving Sebastian and again when he leaves him in North Africa

Yes to Fanny Price from Mansfield Park - I feel I want to shake her and give her a good talking to! (And would also like to punch Admiral Crawford and Henry Crawford for their toxic behaviour). At the back of my mind I am rewriting bits of MP as fanfiction to scold the Bertrams and the male Crawfords and giving Mary Crawford the satisfaction of finding a husband better than Edmund Bertram by adding an additional character.

The author/narrator of Eat Pray Love was annoying to the point I wanted to shout at the book !