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?

Oh no. I love Tess.

And I love Holden Caulfield. I want to hug him.

Dora Spenlow from David Copperfield.

Agreed. Incredibly one-dimensional and basically portrayed as a child. I always wondered how young Copperfield could be attracted to someone like that.

Lila

Take your point about older James working for the good and Severus becoming a Death Eater.

However, Snape possibly overdid bullying to reinforce double agent cover in front of Death Eater kids in his own house? And he redeemed himself in the end (fair enough, it did take him a while!) through all he did to protect Harry.

As for duty of care towards the children, Dumbledore was more than a little cavalier in that regard as well.

In PoA Neville's boggart turns into Snape. So the thing a thirteen year old child (whose parents were both tortured into insanity) fears most in the world his teacher. Snape has more than "issues".

Weeping hobbits
Thomas the cocky, annoying Tank Engine.

It's Brecht. Characters are supposed to irritate you.

Noooo! Not poor innocent Tess. Angel is the one who deserves all the hate. Self-righteous to the end!

Aww I love Tess. I HATE HATE HATE angel!! What a massive dick

Yes to lots of others but Rachel Watson from Girl on the Train - stopped me getting even a quarter the way through

Sam Gamgee.

Harry fucking perfect fucking Potter.

Didn’t even get one chapter into the first book before hating him violently.

Ditto to the films. Picked a bad actor and bad actors around him. I like JK Rowl8ng on Twitter though, she’s not afraid to speak her mind and blast those she crosses.

I wonder if she hated Harry too? He strikes me as too goody two shoes for her from how she appears to present.

I actually agree on Sirius Black. And I like Amy March, so you know my "brat tolerance" is quite high.

Estella from Great Expectations. I am aware Miss Haversham was grooming her to use men but she was annoying and her dialogue just as irritating. I think she was written that way tho!?

I agree with most of these (especially Becky Bloomwood, Fanny Price, Diana Bishop). I hate literally every character in Vanity Fair - not a redeemable quality among them. My top vote though would have to go to bloody Robert Langdon - so blatantly a Gary Stu for Dan Brown who even dresses like his character. Just ugh.

Sam Gamgee

God, yes. All that bowing and scraping and Frodo worship was one of my least favourite things about LOTR.

Tess from Tess of the dubervilles she was such a wuss

Another vite for Clym Yeobright in "Return of the Native". I studied the book due A level and dear God he annoyed me!

Also Clym? What's it short for, Clymothy?

Romeo and Juliet
Juliet - What a drama lama! and all that annoying..."Its the Nightingale" , not the lark", back and forth. All because she doesn't want Romeo to get out of bed and that's just for starters.
Thankfully Romeo much more of a pragmatist told her in no uncertain terms.."Its the lark mate!"

Agree with Kay Scarpetta, so far up her own arse! The endless bloody product placements too.

"She sipped her Tanquerey gin whilst jotting notes with her Mont Blanc Meisterstuck before checking the time on her Breitling Chronomat before heading out to the Mercedes AMG E63"

Paraphrasing slightly, but not much!

I'm reading a book at the moment in which the main character is so bastard annoying that I'm actually going to have to give up-which is really rare for me-it's the kings Gardener by Philippa Gregory. Spoiler, the gardener is a bellend.

Also the man out of Chesil beach. Why didn't he just come out and ask her what was wrong or just show any love for her at all-maybe give her a bit of time? Instead of storming off back to his mums house and giving up on the marriage after all of about two hours. Twat.

Ooh - just popping my head round to see if all the characters in Conversations With Friends have been mentioned and glad to see they have.
Totally agree that that book is written really well, but the characters set my teeth on edge...
As you were!

Snape, though I don't think it's irrational. He is not some tragic hero; he's a snivelling manchild who bullies an 11-year-old because a woman wouldn't sleep with him 15 years ago.

@thecatsthecats - I bloody hate Lyra too. Took a lot to get through all three books hating the main character.

Philippa Gregory annoys me as an author Nigel, never mind the characters themselves!

I don't mind Harry Potter; he goes through a teenage idiot phase but I like that he isn't portrayed as perfect, even if he is sometimes unlikeable, iyswim?