Two-Dimensional Characters

Herman Addleson is a dealer for cars and car parts in Brookings, Minnesota. He’s been in the car dealership trade since he graduated from high school in 1973. He’s a husband with two sons. He’s never cheated on his wife, but his sons are both sex fiends. He tries to keep this hush-hush, and so far he’s doing a good job. He’s biggest fault is his fondness for chewing tobacco and betting on football. He’s a big guy in both height and weight, but he doesn’t like wearing “fancy” clothes.

Myron Velmar smuggles precious metals in the United States for a living. These precious metals are swapped from ship to ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and finally end up on his ship off the coast of South Carolina. He has an illegitimate daughter who now lives on her own in Charlotte, North Carolina. She sometimes visits him only to chew him out and get some money. Myron does have some good qualities though. He has a big heart for teddy bears and elderly people. He sometimes donates large teddy bears to retirement homes to see his ultimate happiness. He does this because he never met his grandparents.

Carrie Spinks found her career early in life working in an amusement park in Houston, Texas. She is in charge of all the food kiosks in her section. At her kiosk, she sells licorice whips and cotton candy. With junk food always surrounding her, people are amazed at her thinness. Her life sounds too simple, but she has an incredible amount of discipline in the martial arts. She has a black belt in both karate and tae-kwan-do. She’s only put her discipline into practice once when a kid broke into her apartment. Carrie’s social life is low due to her impulsive chatting and laughter.

Gary Sharper makes it easier for needlepoint. He owns a fabric shop in Eugene, Oregon and holds workshops on needlepoint. Many men in the community think he is a homosexual, but he actually is one of the most successful heterosexual men in the Eugene. He lets no one on into his secret although his biggest pick-up point is the needlepoint workshop. He’s fairly successful in business, but still can’t move out of his parents’ house. On weekends, Gary spends his time hiking in the woods and chasing little furry animals when no one is looking.

Henrietta Darjeeling is not her real name, but she is an electric dynamo. She works for a big electronics corporation in the San Fernando Valley of California. All her talent lies in manufacturing and repair. She’s practical but not creative. She can fix almost any electrical appliance and equipment. Because of this, more than half of her life is spent working. Her social life is almost non-existent because of this and the fact that she cannot remember the first 20 years of her life, thus her name. She’s a very odd character, but her one normality is that her favorite movies and books are always #1 in the box office or bestsellers.

Are these characters still cardboard cutouts for you? Do you want “real” three-dimensional characters? Look around you and explore all the three-dimensional people you see. Not many are there? But keep it to yourself. You don’t want to insult anyone or maybe you do.