Rear Window Jeff's Character how is jeff a sympathetic and likeable character?

As a character, Jeff is sympathetic because his worst trait (at this point in his life) is that he watches others in order to escape from his own problems. It is hard not to feel sorry for him, but that doesn't mean we aren't appalled by his constant surveillance of others, which is creepy at best.

Over the course of the film, we also see that Jeff's propensity for "watching" other people is all about watching them, rather than helping them. Jeff's interest in the Thorwalds has very little do with his concern for Mrs. Thorwald; similar to his job, he is simply documenting something horrible but not taking any action to solve the problem. In Jeff's arguments with Doyle, he is more focused on being right about the Thorwalds than about the wellbeing of innocents.