To me a non-admirable character is a character that has one or more personal or mental traits that turn another person off.

I think that un-admirable characters bring life and flavor into a book. These kinds of characters make a book good or worth reading. If in every single book all of the characters were good samaritans to the other good characters then it would be boring. I mean what would the point be in writing or even reading a story of someone's fantasy world or utopia. That would just be plain crazy to waste a tree on publishing that kind of a story. Most likely nobody would ever touch a book again if that were to happen. At least I know that I wouldn't.

One of the non-admirable characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Jim Turner. Jim was one of the murderers that were on...