The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh Characters

Warm and Fuzzy, Emotionally Speaking Pooh is the epitome of comfort. He's literature's version of a grilled cheese sandwich stuffed with mashed potatoes, crusted in chocolate chip cookies and cr...

Multiple Personalities We're not trying to get all Fight Club-y on you here, but Christopher Robin has two very distinct personalities in the Pooh books. First, he's a character outside of the n...

The Only Thing We Have to Fear… An adorable little ball of anxiety, that Piglet. Milne tells us more about Piglet's internal world than probably any other character. And more than any other ch...

Womp womp The very definition of Debbie Downer, Eeyore's kind of like a sad clown. You can't help but laugh at him. His episodes usually start with him just sitting still, pondering the black ho...

Bah Humbug! There's a little-known, but widely accepted, method of literary characterization here dubbed "anthropodwarfism." It goes like this: If [insert name here] were one of the seven dwarve...

The Bookworm The thing we love most about ourselves here at Shmoop is that we don't take ourselves too seriously. We love books, and we love that you do too. For that reason, we hold fast to the...

Milne portrays Kanga as the ultimate mom. We'll start by showing what he means by that, and then throw down some 21st century, equality-of-the-sexes-type perspective. Mommy Dearest Kang...

Boys Will Be Boys Roo may be the youngest character in the book and he's typically characterized by unbridled enthusiasm about EVERYTHING. He tends to be clumsy—he falls into mouse holes when...

The Wonderful Thing About Tigger... Tigger is one of the most-beloved characters in the Pooh tales. He even has his own movie. Future spin-offs aside, Tigger plays an important role in the episo...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Peanut Gallery Rabbit's friends and relations are a pretty nondescript group, and don't really have personalities to contribute to the stories. But they show up in vari...