Miser - Misers in Fiction

Misers in Fiction

• Ebenezer Balfour – antagonist in the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Cotta – in Epistle to Bathurst by Alexander Pope
• Henry Earlforward – in Arnold Bennet's novel Riceyman Steps
• Felix Grandet – father of the eponymous title character in the novel Eugénie Grandet by Balzac
• Jean-Esther van Gobseck − an affluent unsurer in the novel Gobseck by Balzac
• Harpagon – a lead character in Molière's play The Miser
• Malbecco – "a cancred crabbed Carle" in Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queene
• Silas Marner – title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner
• Scrooge McDuck - the cartoon character created in 1947 by Carl Barks and licensed by The Walt Disney Company.
• Charles Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons.
• Mr. Prokharchin – title character of the short story Mr. Prokharchin by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Ebenezer Scrooge – lead character of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Shylock – Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Volpone – title character of the Ben Jonson comedy Volpone
• Mr. Krabs - A main character of the Nickelodeon TV show, SpongeBob SquarePants
• Tam Mullen - A central character in Scottish sitcom Still Game.
• Nami - A main character from the anime One Piece.

As a general example, in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, misers are put in the fourth circle of hell, along with spendthrifts. They roll weights representing their wealth, constantly colliding and quarreling.