Examples
The most familiar example of an everyman character is Christian, the protagonist of The Pilgrim's Progress. Other figures often characterized as everymen include:
- Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead franchise
- Jim Halpert in the comedy series The Office
- Stan Marsh in South Park
- Ted Mosby in the comedy series How I Met Your Mother
- Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest
- Rhys Williams in Torchwood
- The narrator of the novel Fight Club and its film adaptation
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Famous quotes containing the word examples:
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people’s attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
—André Breton (1896–1966)
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)