Is he the most emotionallt complex and yet understandable character

XOO

Greg's hubris prevents him from being representative of anything but the omega

>>9362959
He's essentially the modern day equivalent of the underground man

>>9363568

He's a unique mixture of Underground Man, Hamlet, Werther, and Kafka's protagonists.

>>9363568
kek

>>9362959
Actually he is pretty complex. Don't get me wrong, the books are trash and always were and if you ever liked them it is good to see you on this board because you need it, but the character itself is pretty interesting. Definitely better than you'd expect.

>>9363606
What is his character like?

>>9363810
We are not permitted to know.

Who?

>>9364218
the archetypal schemer with delusions of grandeur

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>>9363334
>>9363568
>>9363576
>>9363606
>>9364228
>100 years from now Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be a well-studied part of the western canon

>>9362959
if Greg represents humans, then Rodrick represents the mythological figure of the giant. His superior stature is but the first feature that suggests his role as the giant relative to Greg. Rodrick is terretorial and temperamental.. The imagery of Greg sneaking through his brother's room invokes that of Jack climbing up the beanstalk and attempting to steal the giant's treasured goose, only to incur the giant's wrath.

>>9364267
Who does Rowley represent? Humanities desire to be innocent? Or is he a methaphore for the exploited, a by-product of society?

>>9364267
Maybe it is a look at the Alpha, Beta structure. Greg is the Beta who wishes to be the alpha and strives for it, we know he cannot achieve this and it creates comedic tension. Rodrick is the alpha who shoots down the beta constantly, truly the giant. Rowley is simply the accepting beta, truly the most intelligent character in the story. When he got his first zit he put in on display, to show everyone that he was truly fine with being beta.

>>9364284
Rowley is a taoist, Greg an egoist, Manny a hedonist, and Rodrick a postanarchist

>>9363606
>Don't get me wrong, the books are trash and always were and if you ever liked them it is good to see you on this board because you need it

fuck off pleb

>>9362959
I always thought that the movies were dumb and missed the entire point of the whole thing. The point of the book was that Greg was a loser and the things that he did were all the things that you shouldn't actually do, and this is why in all of the books Greg is the one that gets fucked the most, but the movie fucks this up by making Greg actually win the girl at the end. Kinda irked me desu

>>9362959
All joking aside, I think he's just a narcissistic little fuck, and the whole series is kind of disgustingly masochistic and self-deprecating.

>Wow, look at this pretentious beta who keeps getting humiliated the cooler he tries to be! and he never learns his lesson, he just gets more and more pretentious!

It's like cringe porn after a certain point.

Still like Cervantes compared to David Foster Wallace, though.

>people on /lit/ have actually read this series

You guys have taken this joke too far.

The entire book is a qabbalic metaphor. Rodrick is his brother,and he dominates his entire life. Rod (a phallic symbol) Rick (the german word for majesty or otherwise royalty),Rodrick is the Cether,the crown of god in the tree of life,he is the crown. Comparisons can also be drawn between Rodrick and Roderic or Rodrigo,the last visigothic king of spain. Greg is an emanation,hence he is the malkuth.

>>9365124
the book was published in 2007, back when most 18 year olds now would have been 8 years old.

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>>9365242
>tfw girls born in 2000 will be legal in a year

I'll still fuck it but goddamn does it feel wrong.

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>yfw the 12th book will be published at the end of the year

Literally how is the series still going? Is Greg still in middle school?

>>9365489
Maybe he's stuck in the same kind of time loop that the simpsons are in. Maybe the Greg of each book exists within a dream state of the previous Greg. The metaphysical implications of this series are endless.

>>9365695
>>9365489
Greg is not a literal human boy but an archetype
by nature of being an archetype, he is eternal

>>9365010
We must imagine Greg happy.

when manny licks the dust of the doritos and then puts them back in the bag without eating them, the author is drawing attention to the younger generation's surface level consumption. our children have been overexposed to information and can no longer realize the difference between the flavor it gives on first lick and the nutrients it gives after full ingestion.