20 Of The Biggest Dick Moves In Literature

    WARNING: Spoilers. Because as we all know, authors can be jerks and their characters even more so.

    1. George shooting Lennie in Of Mice and Men.

    2. Titus baking Chiron and Demetrius into pies, and serving them to their family in Titus Andronicus.

    3. When the jury convicts Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird.

    The evidence of his innocence was overwhelming, making the conviction a big time dick move.

    4. Amy being all Amy-ish in Little Women.

    5. Tinkerbell telling the Lost Boys to "Shoot the Wendybird!" in Peter Pan.

    6. Jack stealing Piggy's glasses in Lord Of The Flies.

    7. Anything the boy does in The Giving Tree.

    8. Whoever busted Jean Valjean for stealing a loaf of bread in Les Misérables.

    9. Tom hustling other kids to paint the fence in Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

    10. Dolores Umbridge forcing Harry to write "I must not tell lies" in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

    11. Holmes letting Watson try to figure out a crime, only to tell him he's wrong in every Sherlock Holmes novel.

    12. Esther and Betsy puking in the back of a cab, and covering it with Kleenex in The Bell Jar.

    13. Moby Dick living up to the hype in Moby Dick.

    14. Holden losing the fencing team equipment on the subway in The Catcher in the Rye.

    15. Percy stomping on poor Mr. Jingles the mouse in The Green Mile.

    16. Walder Frey's "Red Wedding" revenge in A Storm of Swords.

    17. Edmund giving up his family for more Turkish Delight in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

    18. Odysseus taunting the Cyclops in The Odyssey.

    19. The kids being mean to Miss Nelson in Miss Nelson is Missing!

    20. McMurphy getting a lobotomy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.