2-)  PAUL SHELDON:

               Paul Sheldon is one of the main characters in Misery by Stephen King.  Paul is world-famous writer. He is the author of the best-selling series of romance novels, Misery ; surrounding the protogonist character Misery Chastain who is a beautiful woman from nineteenth-century England. Paul wrote eight volumes of Misery's love life and adventures which had sold many millions of copies. But he felt trapped by Misery Chastain and he wanted to begin a new novel, so he wrote Misery's Child, the final novel. In the final pages of this book Misery died while giving birth to a daughter. Then he typed a new novel called Fast Cars about the life of a young car-thief in New York.

              He had married twice, but both marriage ended in divorce. He hasn't got a child. He smokes too much. He has cigarettes to calm his nerves.

      He has got a short, fair hair and cold blue eyes. He is in his 50's. We can understand his  legs are shattered in page 5: " She had pulled back the blankets the day before to show him his legs. They were broken and twisted, covered in strange lumps and bruises. His left knee was swollen up to twice its normal size. She told him that both legs were broken in about seven or eight places...". He has got wrinkled  forehead because of his age and his stress. At the end of the story he lost his left foot and his thumb.

                           He is petulant and whiny, so Annie always calls her 'baby'. Because at the first parts of the story, Paul is literally helpless as a baby, his life preserved by Annie's nursing knowledge and great physical strength. But his strong will, patience, self-control makes him alive. He is also intelligent, he can control over his captor through the one thing he does well, writing. Also writing makes him more enduring, he spends his time in front of  typewriter. His wit and plans made him alive.