I am writing about a boy called Greg Heffley who is in a series of books called The Diary Of A Wimpy Kid, It is a series on a boy called Greg who is an unpopular and undersized middle-school aged boy. He is a good kid at heart who genuinely wants to do well, but he can be selfish, lazy, greedy, rude, and arrogant. Throughout the series, his schemes to gain popularity in his middle school, attract girls, and acquire money always backfire. In the book he is often depicted as wearing a white T-shirt with black shorts, and having short dark hair with three flicks at the top. Greg has two brothers one who is called Manny and he is 3 years old, Manny often gets to do what he wants when he wants and if he does something bad his parents (Frank Heffley and Susan Heffley) don’t notice it and will often blame Greg for not looking after him properly if he does do something bad. He also has an older brother called Rodrick (17) who often bullies him and gets him in to trouble at times for no reason.
He has an on and off best friend and he takes part in Greg’s schemes, and is sometimes a victim of Greg’s manipulation and deception. The two have a very complicated relationship, as Greg sometimes takes advantage of Rowley, and his own schemes fail due to Rowley’s idiotic behavior and stupidity. Rowley’s parents view Greg as a bad influence on their son, mostly the father, because of Greg’s brashness and habit for getting himself and Rowley into trouble.
Greg rarely learns from his ill-fated mistakes and continues to scheme and plot for his various goals. An awkward, unpopular, eccentric schoolmate named Fregley, whose many oddities disgust those around him, including Greg, try to distance them from Fregley. But he won’t leave Greg alone. Greg is also noted for having many attractions to girls throughout the series, most notably a girl named Holly Hills but that never quite works out.
Greg is an Anti-Hero in my opinion because he has everything an Anti-Hero needs like he is the main character; he lacks all the qualities a hero has like having morality and idealism. An Anti-Hero is typically clumsy and Greg is very clumsy like the times he fell in to a fire alarm when he fell asleep. An Anti-Hero is unskilled as well and if you read the book you will know that Greg Heffley has no talents apart from maybe being good at one game on his play station. One thing he is not is unsolicited he is very lazy and does nothing apart from watch TV and does no exercise.