12 most colourful characters in literature

Our favourite character has a rainbow in her personality and wardrobe. With her colourful clothes and her bright personality, she helped bring the wheelchair-ridden and depressed Will out of his shell and out into the world again.
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Out of the four March sisters, Jo blatantly shunned gender roles by rejecting feminine ways and fashion. She was highly unlikely to succumb to the pressures imposed on her sex in that era. A determined young girl, Jo loved people and was adored by everyone around her.
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One of the funniest characters of modern literature, Ignatius abhors modern civilization and pop-culture. With a disregard to everything and everyone around him, he is extremely cool, providing the perfect colour and essence anywhere around his setting.
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Becky is like a prism, every situation she gets herself into seems to bring out new colours. From a shopaholic journalist, to a broke financial advisor, to a personal shopper for others, her canvas keeps changing, yet her personality keeps it bright and cheerful.
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As the name implies, this erratic character is insane yet makes perfect sense in the modern civilization. With her love for tea parties, unorthodox mannerisms and being weirdly self-destructive, Mad Hatter has been a crazy favourite among generations who add a great deal of colour to Alice's adventures as well as our hearts.
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Sir John Falstaff is the archetypal rogue, who can eat, drink and make merry at one go. He gets Prince Hal, the future Henry v, into all sorts of colourful scrapes and makes way to the readers' hearts forever.
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An American icon today, Holli Golightly has an air of chic elegance. A troubled self, Holly appears to people as a high-spirited young lady full of colour. She indeed makes life around her colourful with her vibrant demeanour.
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Fun, outgoing, smart, and sexy, Midori is the jolliest character in Murakami's beautiful novel. She is the embodiment of Sixties idealism, and embraces the changing times, while also seeking to retain the colours of traditional values.
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An open-minded soul with a dreamy disposition, Luna is a delight. With her distinct taste for fashion and queer conversation skills, Luna appears the most colourful female character in the Harry Potter world.
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Becky Sharp is a lacerating dagger at the heart of the English establishment. The anti-hero might not hold all the essential requirements of womanhood, but she her true-to-life representation makes her one of the most colourful presence in literature. Beautiful, clever, and sometimes deceitful, Becky Sharp highlights the human condition in all its gloom and glory.
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An astronaut-cum-gardener-cum-prophet, the Little Prince is perhaps also the wisest character in literature. He is adored by book lovers everywhere, and adds perfect colour to our existence through his cute-yet-wise observations.
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