List of anti-heroes

List of anti-heroes

N.B. Within each genre, the titles are alphabetically ordered.

Drama

• Laurence in Abigail's Party[?] by Mike Leigh[?]
• Mr & Mrs Bates in Brimstone and Treacle[?] by Dennis Potter
• Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Stephanie Washburn in The Eclipse[?] by Joyce Carol Oates[?]
• Archie Rice in The Entertainer by John Osborne
• Felix Humble in Humble Boy[?] by Charlotte Jones[?]
• Michael Cartts in Japes[?] by Simon Gray[?]
• Guy in My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot[?]
• Donald in The Philanthropist[?] by Christopher Hampton[?]
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
• Adam in The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute[?]
• Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Fiction

• Martin Brock in 12 Step Fandango[?] by Chris Haslam[?]
• Virgil Adams in Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
• Alan Sherwood in Altered States[?] by Anita Brookner
• Felix Nasmyth in Budding Prospects[?] by T.C. Boyle
• Victor Mancini in Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
• Thomas Covenant in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever[?] by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Peter Jernigan in Jernigan[?] by David Gates
• Jacopo Belbo in Foucault's Pendulum[?] by Umberto Eco
• Alice (as well as some other characters) in King Solomon's Carpet by Barbara Vine[?]
• Arthur Abdel Simpson in The Light of Day[?] by Eric Ambler[?] (filmed as Topkapi)
• Smeagul/Gollum in "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Luke Wakefield in Mr Wakefield's Crusade[?] by Bernice Rubens
• Barnaby Gaitlin in A Patchwork Planet[?] by Anne Tyler[?]
• Charlie in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower[?]" by Stephen Chbosky[?]
• Alexander Portnoy in Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
• John Wheelwright in A Prayer for Owen Meany[?] by John Irving
• Stevens in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Walter Mitty in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty[?]" by James Thurber
• Sydney Carton in "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens
• Mark Crawley (as well as some other characters) in A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig
• Asa Leventhal in The Victim[?] by Saul Bellow

Poetry

• Prufrock in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock[?]" by T.S. Eliot
• Henry in 'The Dream Songs[?] by John Berryman[?]
• Gerontion in "Gerontion[?]" by T.S. Eliot
• Warren Harding in Two Poems About President Harding[?] by James Wright
• Achilles in The Illiad[?] by Homer

(Please add to these lists.)