The paper starts with a theoretical clasification of a literary character and is directed to the position of the literary characte in the curriculum. The central part of the paper presents an interpretation of a literary character, which includes methodical approaches to the interpretation of a literary character in the classroom, and also includes the interpretation of literary, the atrica and a movie character. The work ends with a description of the results of the reaserch related to the educational achievements that students have gained about literary character up to 4th grade. There search was conducted with the fourth grade students of dr.JureTurić elementary school in Gospić. The results have shown that students have the competence of knowledge about literary characters that prescribes CNES for first and second grade completely, while for the third and fourth grade partially.