which literary character?

when i open my browser, arts & letters daily is my set homepage.  this morning, it directed me to this article in the chronicle of higher education, which began with the whimsical question of "if you could be any character in literature, who would you be?" the author's answer was, "bond, james bond" and he goes into a rather in-depth defense of this choice which is worth reading.

i'm not sure i'll go all high-brow on the question, but it is an interesting one, isn't it?  those characters that spring immediately to mind for me are:

1. ruth in john irving's a widow for one year
2. raskolnikov in dostoevsky's crime & punishment
3. the underground man in dostoevsky's novel of the same name (i lean to the dark side)
4. harry potter
5. anna karenina (again with the dark side and i don't really even like tolstoy)
6. nora in ibsen's doll house
7. laura in the laura ingalls wilder books (i pretended this from the ages of 8-11 anyway)
8. lucy in c.s. lewis' the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

it seems to be a rather diverse group, but i do think they all share a gutsiness that i admire, each in their own way.  some in a more disturbing way than others, i'll admit.   

which character would you be?