25 Authors and The Book Characters They'd Like to Be Stuck in an Elevator With
25 Authors and The Book Characters They'd Like to Be Stuck in an Elevator With
Roxanna Elden
That depends. . . How long are we going to be stuck in the elevator?
Anita Abriel
Princess Daisy from Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz.
Lauren Layne
Severus Snape. I have so many questions!
Juliet Blackwell
Harriet the Spy
Olivia Hayfield
Am I allowed one of my own? Then who else but the deliciously bad Harry Rose. If not, then Mr Darcy, though I doubt the conversation would flow. But that probably wouldn’t matter.
Kim Taylor Blakemore
Bridget Jones. We might not be able to get out but she’d make me laugh, so it would be worth it.
Raymond Fleischmann
Olive Kitteridge. She’s perhaps the most thoroughly drawn-out character I’ve ever encountered, and it’d be amazing to meet her (though I feel like I already have).
Megan Angelo
David Hedges from Stephen McCauley's My Ex-Life. David knows how to keep his cool. I find him very calming and resourceful and witty in the face of crisis.
Colleen Oakley
Jack Ryan. He can get out of any situation so I feel like he's my best shot to get out of the elevator. And if not, well, he's pretty hot, so...
John Marrs
Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. There’s nothing like living on the edge, is there? He and I would bond over our love for Whitney Houston, though rather than pipes and rats.
Bella Ellis
Oh dear, I’m not really a fan of elevators, I’m always worried I’d get stuck in one! So I will choose Mark Darcy from Bridget Jones Diary. He seems practical, even headed and also quite easy on the eye.
Ames Sheldon
Maisie Dobbs
Zoe Fishman
Olive Kittredge
Kristín Eiríksdóttir
Gandalf. He probably has good vibes.
Holly Peterson
Anna Karenina — I’d tell her she didn’t need to jump on the tracks, that men stray all the time.
Anne Leigh Parrish
Either Clarissa Dalloway, or Scarlett O’Hara, though they’re very different people – the one lives almost a purely interior life, and the other is wholly extroverted.
Sadie Hoagland
Quentin Compson from Absalom, Absalom, because he would certainly have plenty of stories to tell to kill the time. Side note: this question has really made realize I love a lot of books with characters I wouldn't want to be anywhere near (Lolita, The Stranger, Madame Bovary, I could go on).
Georgie Blalock
I’d love to meet the Vicomte de Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons. He’s sexy, wicked, witty and just downright evil. It makes his redemption and regret at the end so powerful.
Kimberly Gabriel
I'd choose someone to make me laugh like Simon from Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, or I'd pick Inej from Six of Crows who'd have us out of there in a hot minute. I'm not a fan of small spaces.
Avanti Centrae
I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with broad-shouldered Theodore Thorenson, a marine who co-stars in The Lost Power. He’s always wanted to carry the world's troubles on his back by being a covert operative, and jumps at the chance to join VanOps, an ultra-black organization with the duty to stop extreme threats. He’s caught between his mission and his simmering desire for Maddy, so I’d ask him if his shadow alliance will force him to betray her trust.
Rachel Levy Lesser
Atticus Finch
Melissa Fischer
Amelia Peabody of Elizabeth Peters’ mystery series. We would enjoy lively conversation about all and sundry, and she is so resourceful in an emergency! I wouldn’t mind a nip of brandy from her pocket flask, as the occasion may demand.
Tessa Arlen
I was stuck in an elevator on our eldest daughter’s wedding day. Luckily not for too long because I am a bit of a panicker. So, I am choosing a character who is more phlegmatic than I am when it comes to things like claustrophobia and heights. Author Nancy Mitford’s narrator, Fanny, in The Pursuit of Love, and Love in a Cold Climate would be an ideal companion. Fanny has a firm grip on life, having had to deal with her temperamental and tempestuous Radlett cousins, so her presence would be calming. But she is also far from dull. Her deft wit and wicked observations would help to distract from the worrying business of wondering if we were going to plummet to our death down the elevator shaft.
Gregory Sterner
The character of Glen Bateman from The Stand. I could listen to his hypothetical breakdown of a budding society for hours.
Laurie Frankel
Lila Mae Watson from Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist. Is that how everyone answers this question? I mean, if you’re going to get stuck in an elevator, you’d want someone who could get you both out, right?
