Name a strong character in literature that owns a pet. I can't.
Assuming I'm not being an illiterate retard who needs to read more, why do you think this is the case? Why do few characters have pets even though they are a major part of many of our lives?
will smith in dawn of the dead
>>9553322
Because there are more important things to write about than cats drinking milk and dogs eating shit
the limp dick guy in The Age of Reason.
>>9553322
Blicero
>no diamond encrusted tortoise
you need to read more
>>9553322
Odysseus
>>9553346
makes sense.
>>9553322
Odysseus?
Harry Potter
>>9553362
nah fuck you. Argus whilst important in demonising the suitors and emphasising Odysseus's separation from his old life, Argus is not a major point or part of Odysseus's characterisation/the Odyssey as a whole.
>>9553373
Boy that was not the question at all.
Molly Bloom
>>9553373
>fuck you
well fuck you too fuckface
>Argus is not a major point or part of Odysseus's characterisation/the Odyssey as a whole
Who said that he was? The op said just "Name a strong character in literature that owns a pet".
>>9553378
OP here.
Pretty much decided I'm dumb. We're on a roll of pets, many in books i've read but have forgotten about.
As a classics student I'm 100% sure im gonna fail for completely forgetting Argus...
Lt. Glahn from Pan... I guess he's strong? Not sure what you mean with that word
>>9553385
Good on you
>>9553346
Literature isn't "important".
>>9553385
>We're on a roll of pets
Who "we"?
>>9553322
Read the Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe.
Gilfe is the GOAT pet.
towelin's self-insert has like a bear or like a dolphin, or perhaps a moose.
He got to meet the president.
>>9553322
Sancho Panza's Dapple? oh you said strong, Don Quixote's Rozinante?
>>9555036
>Gene Wolfe
>>>/sfg/
Back to your containment thread friend
Mrkgnao!
>>9555057
/lit/ is a containment board, therefore anywhere is fair game, nerd
The protagonist De La Poer had a cat called Nigger Man in the Lovecraft story Rats In The Walls.
Humbert Humbert
Judas from The Master & Margarita