To ask which book characters irrationally annoy you?

[WaterBird]

I'm currently reading the play "The Rise and Fall of Arturo UI" by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (though it takes place in Chicago). There is a fairly minor character (at least at the point in the play where I'm at) called Young Dogsborough, whose father is a major character in his 80's. Any time the son says anything, it is to unnecessarily agree with the father. For example if the father says, "They've gone", the son will then say "My father says they've gone."
Which book characters have you felt annoyed by?

Becky Bloomwood.

I can't even.

Cousin Helen from the What Katy Did books. Teaching Katy to be a stoic and patient and meek and mild in the face of disability. Never complaining, sitting in her room receiving guests, being as sweet and gentle as possible. I know it was the 1880s and this was the Victorian ideal of femininity and invalidism but she always irritated me. Katy should have been allowed embrace her rage!

Dr Zhivago, so much I threw the book across the room when I finished.

Hagrid
I also had to stop reading Wuthering Heights because I hated Heathcliff and Catherine

Ida Arnold in Brighton Rock. I know shes supposed to be a good person trying to help but she just annoys the fuck outta me and shes really boring compared to the other characters. Whenever I've re read it I just skip through any parts she is in.

The main character in Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. So insufferable.

Oh and Holden Caulfield..... what a whiny dickhead

Frodo. He's SO wet.

Mrs bloody-awful, meek, uninspiring, insipid, murderer-enabling de-Winter II. Rebecca is worth three of her: far more fire in her belly. Hell, Mrs DANVERS is better than her!

Ditto the gormless, easily malleable Mr Bingley (what a catch; I think not).

Mr Rochester. As a teen, I wanted my own Mr Rochester and could think of no more attractive a man in the history of literature. As a mature adult, I see him for the manipulative, abusive PoS that he really is. Room 101 for him!

Speaking of Room 101: Winston Smith. Some rebel he is ...

I agree about Frodo, he really irritated me.

Tess Durbeyfield/d’Urberville.
Honestly. Grows up on a farm, but has no idea what causes pregnancy. And what’s the martyr-y confession about?

Oooh and Titus Groan in the Gormenghast trilogy. Hes so dull... in comparison to the other characters... I resented focus on him

Ditto the gormless, easily malleable Mr Bingley (what a catch; I think not).

Oh I disagree! He was rich and good natured. So he'd provide a lovely lifestyle and never have a cross word for you. And he wasn't the brightest spark so if you decided to have a torrid affair with some other chinless toff, or perhaps some devilish footman, he'd be too dim to notice.

I do agree about Mrs de Winter. Just buy some nice clothes and tell Mrs Danvers to bugger off!

I dislike Heathcliffe and Cathy. I WANT to like them. I want to love that book like everyone else does but I just can't. They are awful.

Also really hate St. John Rivers in Jane Eyre. A complete arse.

Marianne Dashwood. A total PITA who thinks the world revolves around her. She irritated me so much, she nearly ruined the book for me. I was pleased when Willoughby threw her over.

humphrey I’m glad someone else hates Wuthering Heights, I can’t stand it but it almost seems sacrilege to say so
Ditto to St John Rivers, also Cousin Helen from What Katy Did, as a pp said. Their cousin Lily and her mother in What Katy Did at School were also insufferable.
Also Daisy, Gatsby, and Alicia from Malory Towers

Jane Eyre. STOP MOANING DEAR GOD.

Perfect Peter and his stupid parents from the horrid Henry books. Bunch of pricks.

I hate St John Rivers too. I can't abide Lydia Bennett either or Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice both needy, selfish narcissists

Oh yeah, St John Rivers was insufferable. So pious and humourless. No wonder she hot footed it back to Bertha Mason Towers and into the arms of Mr Rochester (who wasn't without an issue or two himself!)

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon it’s not Becky who is irritating, more Luke Brandon for believing the outlandish lies!

Anne from the Famous Five. It seems that she always wants to stay around the tents etc washing up and playing house while the other four go off to find the baddies. I feel like I want to give her a bloody good talking to.

Marianne Dashwood is a pain in the ass. Yeah, you're passionate. Whatevs. Mrs Bennet also quite the pain but the poor woman had a useless husband and she recognised the perilous fate that awaited her and her kids unless one of them made a good match.

And didn't she do well? (said in a Brucie voice)

I immediately thought of Becky Bloomwood too. I used to love the books as a teen. Tried to read the more recent ones last year and couldn’t get through them. And Luke is meant to be super smart and driven - why does his character put up with it all

Pollyanna, could throttle her with all her glad, glad, glad.

Anne in the Famous Five books, what a drip.