Observations from my weekly wanderings, mostly in Northern Virginia
And this week, for Father’s Day – My Top 10 Fathers from Classic Lit
10. Colonel Aureliano Buendia from One-Hundred Years of Solitude
9. Kostantin Levin from Anna Karenina
8. Seymour (Swede) Levov from American Pastoral
7. Stephen Kumalo from Cry, the Beloved Country
6. Theoden from The Lord of the Rings
5. Father Joseph Vaillant from Death Comes for the Archbishop
4. Charles Halloway from Something Wicked this way Comes
3. Bob Cratchitt from A Christmas Carol
2. Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Clarence from my yet unwritten novel
Of these, I do love Theoden so much! And Bob Cratchitt and Atticus Finch are simply awesome :-)
ReplyDeleteIt was surprisingly hard to find truly admirable fathers in the classic lit I've read. Great mothers were a bit easier.
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