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Paul Sheldon 
Paul Sheldon is an independant author, who has been highly successfull with his many books about his famous character Misery Chastain. He writes them all at the silver creek lodge in western Colorado. This is his 'routine' that he does with each and every one of his books. He also only prints one copy of his books and has a glass of champagne, a cigarette and a match brought to him every time he completes a book, because in his mind this will bring him the luck he needs to get the book published. This indicates that Paul Sheldon is a highly suppistious man. So when he reaches the end of his next novel (one set away from his chracter of misery) he does not think that there is any problem with him traveling back to his publishers in bad weather. This proves to be the wrong thing to do as he looses control of the car and ends up in a nasty accident where someone comes to his rescue and saves him just in time. Paul wakes up in a strange house where a lady has been looking after him. She says that she is an ex nurse and therefore Sheldon shows another of his personality features of being trusting. Through out the time that Paul spends in the company of Annie (the ex nurse) the audience learn alot about his persona and also the chracters ethics and morals.
 Paul is shown to be someone who trusts highly in people and also to always have time for them, especially if they are a fan of his work. This also shows that he is the type of man that tries to make the best of any situation he finds himself in. This is shown through him obeying and residing to his fate that Annie is going to be looking after him so therefore he has to do what she asks for in return. He is also a man that knows how to look after himself and to get himself out of any place that he beleives will not be gppd for himself. This is shown when he tries to escape for the house that has become his prison by using objects he finds around the house to help him to escape.
I think the chracter of Paul is intelligant at times, as he is a writer and does eventually manage to escape. However, he is lacking in common sence. He goes out in bad weather when most people would stay where they are and ring the person to tell them. And when he tries to escape he hides the knife and the pills in an obvious place so that it was not difficult for Annie to find things. But overall, he is a good man and the protagonist character in which you, as an audce, sympathaseise with. 

Annie Wilkes

Annie is an intriguing character. She is an exnurse living on her own, in a incrediably secluded house where she spends her time reading Paul Sheldons books about a chracter named Misery. She has read everyone of his books and classes herself as his number one fan. Annie is a chracter that can be described as two faced. She has a split personality. When we first meet her she is looking after Paul, who has had a nasty accident, this shows to the audience that she appears to be a caring person who likes to look after people and allow them to depend on her.
You can also see that her chracter is very devoting, as she is talking to Paul about how much she loves his books and you get the feeling that she will do absolutly anything for him as she appears to love him. And then, quite suddenly, we see the other side to her personality. She gets angry with Paul's new book (as he is taking a step away for misery), she becomes very violent towards him. She demands him to bring the chracter Misery back to life.
Later on in the film her obsession for the chracter becomes her un-doing. She takes this obbsession to bring back her beloved chracter. When Paul becomes well enough to move around he tries to escape. Annie finds out that he is trying to escape so ties him up and breaks his ankles. Through this her vioce stays calm which makes the chracter come accross as even more phsycotic. She tried to drug Paul so that he will stay with her as he will not know what is going on around him. This shows that she is planning ahead and knows how to get her own way.
Her morals and ethics extend to her passion of the books and there character, Misery. This shows that she is a very self-centered person. She does know how to get her own way though which shows she is intelligant and inderpendant.
I think the character of Annie has got server mental disabilities. This comes from the phsycotic way that she is, it takes a very messed up person to be able to do the things that she did to not only Paul but also killing the policeman and then as we find out killing the children when she used to be a nurse. I think she has also been denied the help that she is in despreate need of after the children. I think that this may have prevented anything else from happening.