| Point of View/Main Character(s) | |
| Scout Finch | |
| Hester Prynne | |
| Jo March | |
| Ponyboy Curtis | |
| Gabriel John Utterson, Dr. Hastie Lanyon | |
| Joe Christmas | |
| Elinor Dashwood | |
| Bassanio | |
| Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov | |
| Lieutenant Frederic Henry | |
| Jack Worthing, Algernon Moncrieff | |
| Blanche DuBois | |
| Buck, Jack Thornton | |
| Okonkwo | |
| Stephen Dedalus | |
| Tom Joad, the Joad Family | |
| George Milton, Lennie Small | |
| Jurgis Rudkus | |
| Konstantin Levin, title character | |
| Sal Paradise | |
| Paul Baumer | |
| Guy Montag, Capt. Beatty | |
| Charles Marlow, Kurtz | |
| Louisa Gradgrind (and many other Gradgrinds) | |
| Bigger Thomas | |
| Aeneas, the gods | |
| Celie, Nettie, Mr. _________ | |
| Esther Greenwood | |
| Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf | |
| Offred | |
| Ishmael, Ahab | |
| Humbert Humbert | |
| Ebeneezer Scrooge | |
| Hawkeye | |
| | Point of View/Main Character(s) | |
| Winston Smith | |
| Edmond Dantes, Mercedes, Danglars, Fernand | |
| Jim Burden | |
| Hepzibah Pyncheon, Holgrave | |
| Alyosha, Ivan, Dmitri | |
| Meursault | |
| Walter Lee Younger | |
| Maya Angelou | |
| Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle [it's not 'My Fair Lady'] | |
| Brutus | |
| Howard Roark | |
| Prospero | |
| The Stage Manager, Emily Webb | |
| Esperanza Cordero | |
| Darl Bundren | |
| Bathsheba Everdene, Gabriel Oak | |
| Jean Valjean, Inspector Javert | |
| John Yossarian, the chaplain, Hungry Joe | |
| Heathcliff, Catherine | |
| Milkman Dead | |
| Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, Molly Bloom | |
| Sethe, Denver | |
| Gene Forrester | |
| Ralph, Jack, Simon | |
| Achilles | |
| Hedda Tesman, Jørgen Tesman | |
| Eliezer | |
| Dante, Everyman | |
| Claudio, Hero, Beactrice, Benedick | |
| Janie Crawford | |
| Henry Fleming | |
| Alex, the Droogs | |
| Dr. Aziz | |
| Vladimir, Estragon | |
| | Point of View/Main Character(s) | |
| Clytemnestra | |
| Elizabeth Bennet | |
| Tom Wingfield, the Wingfield Family | |
| Gregor Samsa | |
| Wang Lung | |
| Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Athur Holmwood, et al. | |
| Billy Pilgrim | |
| Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton | |
| Jing-mei Woo, Lena and Ying-ying St. Clair, et al. | |
| Holden Caulfield | |
| Santiago | |
| Pierre Bezukhov, Andrew Bolkonski, Natasha Rostova, et al. | |
| John Claggart, Edward Fairfax 'Starry' Vere, Captain Graveling | |
| Dr. Victor [title], the Monster | |
| Bernard Rieux, Jean Tarrou | |
| Nora Helmer, Nils Krogstad | |
| Stephen Kumalo, James Jarvis | |
| Benjy Compson, Quentin Compson, Jason Compson | |
| Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker | |
| Odysseus | |
| Clarissa Dalloway | |
| Jake Barnes | |
| Puck/Robin Goodfellow | |
| Pip, Miss Havisham | |
| Michael Henchard | |
| The Buendia Family | |
| Charles Bovary, Emma Bovary | |
| Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe | |
| John Proctor, Tituba | |
| Bernard Marx, et al. | |
| Chief Bromden, Randle P. McMurphy | |
| Willy Loman, Biff Loman | |
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