I'm your number one fan. There's nothing to worry about. You're going to be just fine.

Anne Wilkes – you look at her, and she seems a little crazy, but at first glance you trust her. She gives you an environment that you’ve always wanted. For Paul Sheldon, it was having a fan like Anne prevent him from a fatal death, which meant a lot to him. Being healed in a home is comfortable, making Anne mirror cocaine or any other drug. It looks suspicious when first introduced, but you know somehow it’ll help you, so you use. At first, just like Anne, it’ll feel great. All that anger or regret seems to go away and life seems better, but just like Anne Wilkes, nothing good lasts very long. She then tells Paul to continue his book, making sure she gets her way, just like drugs would do. She pushes and pushes and addicts like Paul's character know from the beginning what they are getting into, and they keep trying and trying for a way out, but being an addict leaves you alone to face your drug yourself, exactly what Anne did to him. Her character's personality is socially awkward, and also arguably bipolar-when Paul is doing what she wants she's calm and enthusiastic, but when you get her mad she is beyond pissed. Probably why the reader could love and hate her at the same time...