Is there any pragmatic protagonist in literature? Can you guys

The Stranger

>>9169632
Is Meursault really pragmatic? People are always talking about the book here but i would never guess so. I will give it a try.

>>9169588
Odysseus?
that's like the founding of literature is the acknowledgment of sense as a virtue

Don Quixote just transcended it and changed the zeitgeist

>Odysseus
i think he fits what i am trying to find more in the Iliad than the Odyssey, he becomes increasingly idealistic as the story goes on

I use "pragmatic" as in the trope commonly found in anime and related japanese art forms, i never found something like that in western literature.

>>9169732
>increasingly idealistic
i expressed myself bad here, he don't actually becomes idealistic but he feels less and less pragmatic in the odyssey, maybe? - i lack the vocabulary to express what i want

thinking back, maybe he is more or less what i am trying to find, every time he about a plan he really acts in pragmatic way, he is just a more developed character than the anime ones i know.

can you recommend another one?

>>9169819
>developed character than the anime ones i know
Can you describe a bit what these anime characters do that you refer to as pragmatic? They are just semi normal and natural and regular people, who make mistakes, and who are childish and selfish and stubborn, mopey, potentially stoic, potentially magical, potentially disciplined, potentially emo, but sluggishly slug away at the work that needs to be done anyway?