List of anti-heroes
Redirected from Losers in literature 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.)
N.B. Within each genre, the titles are alphabetically ordered.
(Please add to these lists.)