He's an entertainer held captive by his audience. Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent, locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. And it's not good that her favorite writer has been a Don't-Bee and written a different kind of novel, a nasty novel, the novel he has always wanted to write, the only copy of which now lies in Annie's angry hands.īecause she wants Paul Sheldon to be a Do-Bee, she buys him a typewriter and a ream of paper and tells him to bring Misery back to life.
It's not fair, for example, that her favorite character in the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed by her creator, as Annie discovers when Paul's latest novel comes out in paperback. A dangerous psychotic with a Romper Room sense of good and bad, fair and unfair, Annie Wilkes may be Stephen King's most terrifying creation. Agony of the Feet: A foot is cut off in the book. In the film, Paul is a full-blown Nice Guy whos only moment of wrath is giving back what Annie gave him.
He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life: "I'm your number one fan!"Īnnie Wilkes is a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and other instruments of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch. Adaptational Nice Guy: While he isnt a Jerkass by any means in the book, he does a lot of snarking in his narration, hates Annie and even compares his fight with Annie to rape. Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction.
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