Peter and Wendy
For years, Peter Pan was known as a play. Other than the chapters we mentioned earlier, there were no book versions of Peter Pan’s story. In 1911, Barrie finally turned his play into a novel titled “Peter and Wendy.” Yes, Wendy was Barrie’s character, too. Did you know the author partially based Peter Pan on himself?
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Peter is a complex fictional character and stemmed from a mixture of people in Barrie’s life. But when he created the character, Barrie took some inspiration from himself. Peter is portrayed as an insufficient, strange, outsider in British society. Supposedly, that’s how Barrie felt. However, one of the main similarities is that they both seemingly had a lack of sexual desire. This is, of course, debatable.