Books or films with narcissistic characters?

[Biscuitsareme]

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?

Gone with the wind

Wuthering Heights.

Lolita

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

The Talented Mr Ripley

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

Sunset Boulevard.

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

Rebecca

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

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!

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

The husband, Rebecca and the maid father!!

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!

Tangled

Repunzel' s mum is a grade A narc.

Lola in Charlie and Lola. She's grim.

Citizen Kane.

Gordon Gecko in Wall Street

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

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

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

cup of gold

shallow Hal

Bruce Anderson in the 44 Scotland Street books

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

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

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.