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How can you best describe Annie Wilkes? Obsessed, eccentric, emotionally unstable, mentally ill, perhaps bi-polar manic-depressive or even schizophrenic. All of these terms aptly describe Stephen King’s Annie Wilkes.

She is a diverse and enthralling character. Although loathing immediately comes to mind when thinking of Annie the very nature of her character makes you want to discover more about her. What evil will she next inflict on Paul Sheldon?

Living alone, her house is situated in a depopulated area miles from town. Annie Wilkes is not a normal woman. She lives her life vicariously through Paul Sheldon’s Misery novels and it’s main character Misery Chastain. Even her pet pig is named Misery.

Annie is a large woman and not feminine in manner at all. Wearing either large cardigans that hide her shape and wool skirts in dull colours or jeans and flannelette shirts her hair is brown and short and un-styled. She never wears make-up.

Annie first appears to us in the book when she rescues author Paul Sheldon f

Annie discovers he has been out of his room by the changed position of a ceramic penguin she had kept on a coffee table that Paul had inadvertently knocked over.

In this moment her anger rises and at the end she realises for Paul’s safety that she best go away for a while;

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