With Halloween coming up on Saturday, and the recent release of Where the Wild Things Are, I am sure there will be plenty unoriginal ghouls donning Max’s pjs for this years hallow’s eve. It seems every now and then a literary figure, fictional or real, gets popular through some from of media (i.e. Harry Potter, Max, etc.) and is all the rage for Halloween. This got me thinking…what other literary costumes would I like to see this year, or anytime? Here is a list of a few costumes that I would like to see:
1.) Jay Gatsby – This would be tricky to do in order to make it instantly recognizable, maybe have a green light dangling if front of the costume. A must would to toss money around everywhere you go, makin’ it rain with monopoly money! I think this would be a great group costume as some could dress in 1920s flapper gear.
Who knew that Paul Rudd was in this?
3.) Charles Bukowski – Basically for this you could just wear a stained wife-beater and some slacks while carrying around a bottle of whiskey and screaming obscenities! Somewhat similar to Matt Dillon in Factotum.
4.) Ms. Frizzle – If a girl did this it would be amazing!! A crazy dress with crazy hair and a stuffed animal lizard = awesome costume!It would be even more awesome if you got someone to dress up as the bus!
4.) Mark Twain – I don’t think I have ever seen anyone dress up as good ol’ Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The best thing about it would be that the next year you could use the same stuff and dress up as Albert Einstein.
5.) Truman Capote – This would be an amazing costume, especially if you had a girl dress up with you as Harper Lee. I am talking Truman Capote from Infamous, not that shitty movie Capote with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Why the hell they cast him as Truman Capote I will never know.
6.) Jane Eyre – There are a number of ways you could do this, but I think the best would be to have someone else dress up as a blind Rochester and a third dress up as Bertha in chains and she could run around being all crazy! Bertha would obviously have to look like Jane since she is Jane’s doppelganger, but she could be waving around a torch or something. Personally, I just think this would be hilarious!
I have a bunch more but this could go on forever, these were the first 6 that popped into my head. Which ones would you want to see?
Jeeves the butler would also be good, but then you’d have to do everyone’s bidding all night.
“Bertha would obviously have to look like Jane since she is Jane’s doppelganger, but she could be waving around a torch or something.”
I was totally going to write an essay response to this – but then I decided it would be easier to go with: I hate you.
That being said – these are great ideas haha. I already told my redheaded friend she should be Ms. Frizzle – it’s genius!
I would also say, (with deference to your Samuel Clemens suggestion), Huck Finn – but only because he was such a rapscallion that the girls will come a’ runnin. Ooh, or Morpheus from the Sandman Series! Man there are too many to choose from – I’m cutting this off here before I get all fangirly.
Since we’re in the city, there’s bound to be some broody literary types running rampant this Saturday (at least I hope so): the Holden Caulfields; the Bright Light, Big City blokes (complete with coke spoon!); and maybe throw in a Mrs. Dalloway or Esther Greenwood for good measure. Costumes might vary a little, but for the most part each is characterized by a shirkish demeanor and a general sense of unease and distrust with the world–gotta love it!