What Fictional Characters would you be?

[As an aside, not sure I should be upset no one tagged me for that movie meme thing or relieved, going with relieved. Unless of course someone did, and I missed it - in which case, please alert me. Or perhaps that's why they didn't because, ahem - I'm horrid at keeping up with my flist.]

Lovely day today and night. On the way home from dance class, I just lost myself in the palette of colors. Turquoise sky with slither of a crescent moon - brilliant white against it. With soft yellow streetlights. And green trees. My mind waxed poetic but I decided to keep the thoughts to myself for a change of pace. Dance class not bad - but it occurred to me halfway through that Salsa Dancing may not have been meant to be danced by people with long legs and big feet (ie. Germans and Northern Europeans...).

Today at work - one of my co-workers had forgotten one of the attorney's names and dubbed him Tom Sawyer (which was oddly fitting), in my head I began to dub several other attorneys and co-workers with literary figure names, most of them from Alice in Wonderland for reasons I'm not entirely certain I want to analyze at the moment. At any rate it got me to thinking - if you could be a character from classic literature, who would it be? Or far more interesting - what literary character from classic literature do you currently feel like or identify with? (This may just be a question for the English Majors and Lit Majors on the flist.)

I know which one I feel like at the moment: Alice (either In Wonderland or the Looking Glass) - and now I have the Jefferson Airplane classic stuck in my head. "Go ask Alice...who is ten feet tall..."

But which would I like to be...hmmm...must ponder. Can it be boy or girl? Guys had more fun in classic lit than the girls did, which may be why I'm not overly fond of classic lit. No, I don't want to be a Jane Austen heroine - the fashion would kill me. Viola in Twelth Night however, might be a hoot in a half. (Identify more with Helena in Midsummer Night's Dream, but much prefer being Viola or Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.) Pippi Longstocking would be fun. Nice and free-spirited. Could handle Joe in Little Women, up until she becomes the schoolmarm in Little Men, identify a bit with Joe. No, Daisy Miller me, nor do I see myself in the shoes of Edith Wharton ladies of lore.

Surely not the damsels that the three musketeers kept saving, although it might be fun to be the wicked wife of one of the three that is until she's beheaded. If I jump across the gender aisle - I could be the dashing Scarlett Pimpernel (skipping the death of his wife or other ills), Swann obsessed with his Odette (might want to skip the obsession), or the wonderful Marquis De Sade (skipping prison and insanity), or better yet Huck Finn traveling down the Missipppi, could live without the parental abuse though. Never realized until now how tough these literary figures had it. Not sure I want to be any of them, come to think of it. Well, maybe one who had a happy ending - course problem with life is the ending is death, while in a book it is merely the last chapter - the characters content to live out their loop forevermore.Wait. Would I want that? Condemned to replay the same story over and over and over again? Nah, life may be better...

Who would you be if you had the choice? And who do you feel like now?
Can be any literary figure - by the way. But should be a more or less recognizable one from classic literature.