About Annie: She is a lonely woman who lives out of the way of the rest of the town. She loves Paul Sheldon and his books, and has something wrong with her. Whether its a mental disorder, or just a terrible upbringing, we never find out. She constantly tries to keep Paul in her clutches, not wanting to share him with the rest of the world.
Throughout the film we learn a bit about Annie, and yet in some cases we learn nothing at all. The film is almost seen from Paul's perspective, so we see all off Annie's bad qualities and actions. It's revealed to us that she's done plenty of bad deeds in the past, and that she continues to do so and has very little respect for others who aren't Paul. On that note, she doesn't seem to have a lot of respect for Paul either. What type of fan would break both of their idol's legs?
Seeing him as an idol though still shows through, and shows how childish she really is. At the start, and running a bit through the film, whenever Paul is nice to her in some way she turns into this excited little fan girl, and shows she can't be very grown up about the situation. Even when their having dinner together, she never seems to see it in a romantic sense, she's just ecstatic that he invited her.
Ethics and Morals: Annie really doesn't seem to have any morals to stop her from committing these sorts of crimes. She stalked Paul, thus able to save him from the storm. She kidnapped him and stopped him from contacting the outside world. She killed a man for finding him, and then broke both of Paul's legs so he couldn't escape. Then in the end there was a full out fight between them.
I think: Annie is probably one of the characters which i despise the most, out of every film i've ever seen. She's annoying and should of really gotten hit by a wayward truck at the start of the film. Honestly, i think watching Paul write his new book for an hour would of been more interesting than having to see Annie on screen. She has some sort of mental disorder obviously, but it's not showed off in any sort of clever way. She isolates her self, and doesn't even have any good schemes apart from kidnapping one author. She has extremely low intelligence and wisdom.
About Paul: He is the author of a successful series of novels about a character called Misery Chastain. But he wants to branch out his work, and finishes a new manuscript he's excited to publish.
After a road accident he is taken into the care of Annie Wilkes, he self proclaimed number one fan, who doesn't take too kindly to him killing Misery. He stays missing to the outside world, trapped in her nursing hands for what he is yet to realise is a very long time.
Throughout the film we learn a fair bit about Paul, and not just from Annie and her stalking. He's a dedicated writer, and puts a lot of thought and effort into his books. Once he's set on an idea, it's very hard to deter his determination. (We can see this from his many escape attempts, and when he killed Misery off, there was almost no way to explain why she would be alive again.) He's also rather cunning and can put on a fake act. He used this multiple times to slip past Annie or to calm her down so she wouldn't go on a rage.
Ethics and Morals: Over all, i'd say Paul holds some quite strong morals, as he tried very humane ways to try and escape, and put his trust into his saviour for some time. Even after he found out he was missing to the outside world, he didn't threaten Annie. The only time he attacked her was after she had done so to him, and even killed a police man for finding him.
I think: Personally, i don't like this character at all. He was far too lenient and polite to Annie, and took far too long to make a proper escape. That being said, it was his own stupid fault for driving in a snow storm anyway, he seems to have rather low wisdom.
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