She tells him she has not called a hospital or told anybody about him and makes a veiled threat on his life. Wilkes is furious when she discovers Sheldon killed off Misery at the end of his latest novel. He has studied psychological disorders as part of his research for the Misery series, and suspects early on that Wilkes is mentally unstable. These statements, and the fact that she is not in a hurry to take him to a hospital, make Sheldon uneasy. She also implies that she has visited the hotel where Sheldon finishes his novels as he was staying there. She fawns over Sheldon, a writer of romance novels starring her favorite literary character, Misery Chastain she professes to be his "number one fan" and says that she loves him. In both the book and film, Wilkes rescues protagonist Paul Sheldon after he breaks both of his legs in a car accident, and takes him to her home to convalesce. After several years of working in hospitals across the country, she settled in a remote portion of Colorado's Western Slope. The novel provides Wilkes' backstory, stating that she was born in Bakersfield, California, on April 1, 1943, and graduated from the University of Southern California's nursing school with honors in 1966. ( February 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. In the 1990 film adaptation of the novel, Wilkes was portrayed by Kathy Bates, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal.Ī nurse by training, she has become one of the stereotypes of the nurse as a torturer and angel of mercy.
Evangeline Wilkes (half-sister, Castle Rock only)Īnnie Wilkes is the main antagonist in the 1987 novel Misery, by Stephen King.
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