A subplot follows the character Melony, who grew up alongside Homer in the orphanage.

This ambiguity of character was further exacerbated by his remoteness, and as he grew older, he increasingly displayed a preference for solitude, which may have stemmed from his isolated upbringing.

Margaret Mitchell arranged Gone with the Wind chronologically, basing it on the life and experiences of the main character, Scarlett O ' Hara, as she grew from adolescence into adulthood.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work.

Two centuries later, the pope became a major character in a legend which grew up about the Minnesänger, which is first attested in 1430 and propagated in ballads from 1450.

The role of supporting character Entwistle steadily grew on the show until the beginning of the 30th series, when he and Alvin were recruited by Hobbo Hobdyke, a former milkman with ties to MI5, to form a new trio of volunteers who respond to any emergency.

After three seasons, Rogers grew weary of the Trapper character being treated as more of a sidekick than an equal to Hawkeye, and decided to leave the show ( as had McLean Stevenson, who had played Lt.

She grew up in Detroit with a nanny, Elizabeth Clementine Gillies, whom she called " Dibby " ( and on whom she based her famous character Emily Litella ), and an older brother named Michael.

The village expanded rapidly between 1923 and 1939 when a series of garden estates – encouraged by the Metropolitan Railway – grew around its historic core, and it was largely from this time onwards that the area ( including Hatch End, which forms the northeastern part of Pinner ) assumed much of its present-day suburban character.

It is the setting for Stephen Hunter's fictional Bob Lee Swagger series, the most notable being Black Light, as well as the place where Joel B Reed's fictional character, Jazz Phillips, of the Jazz Phillips mystery series, grew up.

In the 20th Century Fox computer animated movie " Rio ", Jesse Eisenberg's character lived in Moose Lake, the setting was picked because one of the screenwriters of the film ; Don Rhymer, grew up in Moose Lake, Minnesota.

* In the 1999 film Outside Providence, the movie's main character, Tim Dunphy, grew up in Pawtucket ( a city just outside Providence ).

Evidence of its incisive character is furnished also by the polemical literature that grew out of it.

* The " How I Met Your Mother " character Marshall Eriksen grew up in St.

Walt Kelly, who grew up in Bridgeport, named the Pogo character P. T.

MacDonnell later claimed, " Much of Matt Dillon's character grew out of Bill Conrad.

As a testimony to Murray Ball's skill as an artist, the character of Rangi actually grew up over the years in the book, appearing slightly older in each book from being a little kid to a teenager.

Explaining the origin of Marlowe's character, Chandler commented that " Marlowe just grew out of the pulps.

The executives enjoyed the character, and Bartlett completed the cast of characters by drawing inspiration from people he grew up with in Portland, Oregon.

The ten years that followed were not happy ones for Mantegna and Mantua: his character grew irritable, his son Bernardino died, as well as the marquis Ludovico, his wife Barbara and his successor Federico ( who had declared Mantegna cavaliere, " knight " ).

The character of Jim Kurring originated in the summer of 1998 when actor John C. Reilly grew a mustache out of interest and started putting together an unintelligent cop character.

With his Bernoldus Niemand character, James managed to cross the language division and influence a whole range of Afrikaans speaking musicians to the same punk ethic that had inspired him, and an important Afrikaans alternative rock scene grew from this influence.

Within these restrictions the character was tremendously elastic.

It became tremendously successful and a series of further books featuring the character was commissioned.

Author Simone commented on the new lineup, saying that each character provided a foil for the two others: " In this case, Babs and Dinah respect each other tremendously, and each is capable of great things the other is not.

Throughout the 1980s, as well as playing a recurring character in the hit comedy-drama Minder, he provided voices for the children's cartoons Pigeon Street and Joshua Jones, and was the voice behind Sydney, a character in a tremendously popular and long-running advertising campaign for Tetley tea.

The chief causes of his victory over his opponents were his great popularity and the reverence paid to the episcopal character at that period.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

He believes the reason for his renewed popularity had to do with his themes, which he made credible " an ideal conception of an American national character ":

Author George Sand was portrayed as a character in several works in the 19th century ; writer Mario Praz credited the popularity of lesbianism as a theme to Sand's appearance in Paris society in the 1830s.

The greatest popularity, however, was achieved by a 1957 comedy about a testy, ill-tempered character nicknamed Patate and a 1962 comic mystery L ' Idiote Idiot, best known in America as the basis for the play and film A Shot in the Dark.

One track on the latter exemplified both the scene's close-knit character and the popularity of heroin within it: " Chinese Rocks "— the title refers to a strong form of the drug — was written by Dee Dee Ramone and Hell, both users, as were the Heartbreakers ' Thunders and Nolan.

As Bunyan's popularity came only after the stories appeared in print, some commentators have thought of him as an inauthentic " fakelore " character.

The popularity of Peyton Place prompted the CBS network to spin off popular As the World Turns character Lisa Miller into her own evening soap opera, Our Private World ( originally titled " The Woman Lisa " in its planning stages ).

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.

The same year also saw competition increase as Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character, Betty Boop, gained popularity among theater audiences.

Pac-Man ( 1980 ) was the first game to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in his own right.

Its popularity is often attributed to its ease of cultivation — the grapes have thick skins and the vines are hardy and resistant to rot and frost — and to its consistent presentation of structure and flavours which express the typical character (" typicity ") of the variety.

Her character stood out as a positive portrayal of a Jewish woman and at the height of her popularity, she fell in love with another woman, a witch named Tara Maclay.

The initial Boba Fett toy, more than Fett's actual film appearance, might be responsible for the character's popularity ; Henry Jenkins suggests children's play helped the character " take on a life of its own.

In 2002, Hello Kitty lost her place as the top-grossing character in Japan in the Character Databank popularity chart and has never recovered.

Much of its popularity is attributed to the fact that in the 1971 film Le Mans, Steve McQueen's character, Michael Delaney, drives for the Gulf team.

The character found perhaps his greatest popularity during the 1980s and early ' 90s.

The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role.

This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance.

In 1936, Walt Disney felt that the Disney studio's star character Mickey Mouse needed a boost in popularity.

Abed-Hamin is a fictitious character, and the " Wars of Granada " is, in reality, a historical novel, perhaps the earliest example of its kind, and certainly the first historical novel that attained popularity.

The character, who appeared three times in Gaiman's series, was revived due to the popularity of Gaiman's series.

However, his detached, timid and morose character, his search of perfection frequently made him lose friendships and popularity.

By 1952 the popularity of the character convinced Dell to give Scrooge a try-out as a lead character in the seminal " Only a Poor Old Man ", a story Barks expert Michael Barrier has termed a masterpiece.