As a bibliophile, I constantly seek wisdom from literature. Naturally, brainstorming dog names led me to stand in front of my bookshelf, jotting down memorable characters as I recalled familiar narratives. From the tragically lost Sebastian Flyte, to the handsome Mr. Darcy, from the unbelievably brave Caddie Compson to the lovable Francie Nolan, the options for literary-inspired names are endless. Below is a (far from complete) list of noteworthy characters:
1. Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
2. Jane, Jane Eyre
3. Gatsby, The Great Gatsby
4. Lolita, Lolita
5. Spade, The Maltese Falcon
6. Antonia, My Antonia
7. Zuckerman, My Life as a Man
8. Dantes, The Count of Monte Christo
9. Pippi, Pippi Longstocking
10. Éowyn, The Lord of the Rings
11. Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
12. Aureliano, One Hundred Years of Solitude
13. Caddie, The Sound and the Fury
14. Samsa, The Metamorphosis
15. Garp, The World According to Garp
16. Celie, The Color Purple
17. Jekyll, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
18. Elinor, Sense and Sensibility
19. Holden, The Catcher in the Rye
20. Rhett, Gone With the Wind
21. Blanche, A Streetcar Named Desire
22. Moriarty, On the Road
23. Portia, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
24. Santiago, The Old Man and the Sea
25. Archer, The Age of Innocence
26. Sherlock, A Study in Scarlet
27. Ursula, Women in Love
28. Sebastian, Brideshead Revisited
29. Edna, The Awakening
30. Quixote, Don Quixote
31. Mary Lou, On the Road
32. Adela, Passage to India
33. Atticus, To Kill a Mockingbird
34. Penelope, The Odyssey
35. McMurphy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
36. Pip, Great Expectations
37. Wentworth, Persuasion
38. Zhivago, Dr. Zhivago
39. Charlotte, Charlotte’s Web
40. Hester, The Scarlet Letter
41. Williston, The Last Gentleman
42. Lily, The House of Mirth
43. Babbitt, Babbitt
44. Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
45. Dorian, The Picture of Dorian Gray
46. Caspar, The Portrait of a Lady
47. Daisy, The Great Gatsby
48. Scarlett, Gone with the Wind
49. Jewel, As I Lay Dying
50. Alice, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
51. Bendrix, The End of the Affair
52. Dabney, Delta Wedding
53. Kurtz, Heart of Darkness
54. Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
55. Chatterly, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
56. Ahab, Moby-Dick
57. Isabella, Northanger Abbey
58. Emerson, A Room With a View
59. Marlowe, The Big Sleep
60. Anne, Anne of Green Gables
61. Emma, Madame Bovary
62. Macbeth, Macbeth
63. Francie, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
64. Amory, This Side of Paradise
65. Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
66. Dedalus, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
67. Stark, All the King’s Men
68. Huckleberry, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
69. Becky, Vanity Fair
70. Tess, Tess of the d’Urbervilles
71. Gwendolen, The Importance of Being Earnest
72. Florentino, Love in the Time of Cholera
73. Pevensie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
74. Marcel, Remembrance of Things Past
75. Van Helsing, Dracula
76. Phoebe, The Catcher in the Rye
77. Ichabod, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
78. Jo, Little Women
79. Copperfield, David Copperfield
80. Karenina, Anna Karenina
81. Valjean, Les Misérables
82. Oliver, Oliver Twist
83. Pilgrim, Slaughterhouse-Five
84. Joad, The Grapes of Wrath
85. Yossarian, Catch-22
86. Janie, Their Eyes Were Watching God
87. Jean, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
88. Gandalf, The Hobbit
89. Binx, The Moviegoer
90. Scout, To Kill A Mockingbird
91. Hazel, Wise Blood
92. Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights
93. Brett, The Sun Also Rises
94. Ramsay, To the Lighthouse
95. Frankie, The Member of the Wedding
96. Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway
97. Casaubon, Middlemarch
98. Stryver, A Tale of Two Cities
99. Ryder, Brideshead Revisited
100. Maribelle, Sweet Bird of Youth
101. Rodion, Crime & Punishment
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