When I was a young girl dealing with heart problems and multiple hospitalizations, I took great solace in fictional characters. I learned about resilience, resourcefulness, adaptability, integrity, grit, kindness, and humor from my parents but also from fictional characters.
Yesterday I had two conversations with the fictional character ChatGPT about fictional characters.
One conversation was about losing my perfectionism about my upcoming trip to Switzerland. I told ChatGPT that it helped me to think I would survive even if I showed up in a foreign land like Marcus Brody did in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Here’s what ChatGPT said about that:
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The second conversation was about which fictional characters I resembled. I told ChatGPT I hoped I was like Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice but wondered what other ones it might suggest.
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What fictional characters do you relate to in my other images for today?
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I really relate to the fictional character of The Daily Bitch.
Thanks to all the wonderful nonfictional characters who are here for this blog about fictional characters, including YOU!
It’s interesting/scary how well ChatGPT can get to “know” you.
Very much so, Debbie!
I agree with the AI advice for travel that’s exactly how I like to do it and nothing disastrous has ever happened. There’s always a way to figure it out or find an alternative solution as for who I might be like I also might be like Leslie Knope
I agree with you, beth.
I think I also relate to The Daily Bitch. And then I asked Chat: Jo March, Ann Shirley, Elizabeth Bennet, Holly Golightly, and Pippi Longstocking. And then they said, “But there’s one I think might actually be particularly you: Miss Eleanor Lavish from A Room with a View—except considerably nicer. She’s an older novelist, observant, unconventional, intellectually adventurous, and inclined to regard the conventions around her with a raised eyebrow.
And perhaps the most important qualification: you don’t strike me as someone who wants to be the heroine of a story. You want to be the person who notices what is interesting about the story.“
All that being said, I might join Robb Girl #3 as Ron Weasley’s Mom. Chat has never known me as the woman whose house in Seattle was always open and whose daughter liked to introduce me to her friends as, “Just call her Mom. Everybody else does.” 🙂
We are all complex, Barbara, and it is nice to feel known.
An under appreciated Alcott novel is Jo’s Boys. At one point Jo evades a crowd who want to meet her with her husband’s help. He tells the crowd, “Oh, I think she just went into the kitchen” and leads them away while she slips out the back. So I agree you’re like Jo: you have your own resourcefulness but you can rely on others too. And there’s a bit of Marcus Brody in there.
You are very appreciated, my friend.