Greg Heffley

Greg Heffley is the main character of the realistic fiction book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid created by American cartoonist Jeff Kinney.
Information
*Birthdate
:In the series: June 15, 1996

*Grade and Age:

:First book: 6th grade (Age: 11)
:Second: First semester of 7th grade (Age: 12)
:Third: Last semester of 7th Grade (Age: 12)
:Fourth: Summer vacation (Age: 12, but then turns 13)
:Fifth: 8th grade (Age: 13)
*Siblings:
:Brother: Manny (Age: at least 5, as of the fifth book)
:Brother: Rodrick (Age: at least 15, as of the fifth book)
*GPA:
:His GPA is currently unknown.
Personality
In the books, Greg is depicted as underweight, selfish, greedy, absurd, idiotic, and rude. He explains that he is good at nothing except video games, which he spends most of his time playing. He grows an interest of drawing comics for the school newspaper before he quits when Mr. Ira, a teacher at his school who edits the comics, ruins it by trying to use it as an ad for the school's library. Greg comes up with many different ideas and sub-jobs, including becoming a safety patroller in school. He also has a crush on Holly Hills until the end of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, where he decides it wouldn't work out because she mistakens him for Fregley. He began to have a crush on a new girl that moved to his street, called Trista, but it seems like she didn't have any interest in him. Greg later began to impress Heather Hills when she became a life guard at the town pool, but that didn't work either. It is presumed that Greg's family believes in the Catholic Christian faith because they attend church and in the visual novel Greg goes to confession. Greg often tries avoiding certain events (such as being in a school play) or to achieve a goal (such as impressing a crush), but almost all of Greg's scheme's fail and sometimes leads to serious, frustrating, and always unfair outcomes. He also has a huge uncomftor for Fregley. However, it also seems to be that he is becoming more active in sport, school and less of video gaming.
As the series progresses, Greg is fit enough to do push-ups, sit-ups and even climb up trees. He also reads books and newspapers more actively. It is noted that Greg has a talent for comics and loves illustrating and writing them, even known for starting the successful comic, Zoo-Wee Mama!. His comic was published under Rowley's name, when Greg and Rowley became enemies.
Appearance
Greg is usually depicted with a T-shirt and black shorts. In the winter he wears a small coat and black pants. He is very skinny and does not seem to eat or work out much. His father (in the first and third book) tries to get Greg to work out and exercise, but unfortunately for him Greg prefers playing video games and reading comic books.
Near the end of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, it is revealed Greg wears contacts.
Greg has yet to reach his growth spurt and become the "muscle man" he dreams about being. In middle school his height is about in the middle; he's neither outstandingly tall nor that small compared to some of his other classmates.
Relationship with Rodrick
Rodrick is Greg's older brother and he treats Greg just like the misfortunate kids at school. Rodrick is in high school, and he is at least 15 years old, due to the fact that he can drive and that Greg said Rodrick was sick for his sophomore yearbook pictures. In the second book, Rodrick has more parts in the story, including his band called Löded Diper (according to Greg is really spelled Loaded Diaper), in which he plays the drums. He often argues with Greg. He was grounded along with Greg after their parents discovered Rodrick's party, blaming Greg for thinking that he helped Rodrick, when Greg was in fact, locked in the basement all night. Rodrick once locked Greg out of a hotel room when Greg was in his underwear (he calls them "tighty whities") in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw. It has also been shown that Rodrick greatly conceals his pranks, causing their parents to think Greg is crazy.
Relationship with Manny
Manny is Greg's younger brother who's about five years old. Greg doesn't like Manny very much, and he expresses it profoundly in his diary. He has a number of reasons for this, such as the fact that Manny calls him "Bubby", because he couldn't prounounce 'brother' right, which he finds annoying. Manny once broke Greg's game system by shoving a chocolate chip cookie in the disc drive. He apologizes to Greg by giving him a ball of tinfoil with toothpicks sticking out of it, described by Greg as 'Don't ask me how that was supposed to make up for my broken video game system' . Greg tries to trash it, but his mother stops him. Later on, Rowley accidentally sits on it, and the toothpicks hurt his rear. Manny always uses cute and sad looks to get out of trouble. Greg thinks Manny is always in the way, and when Manny does something wrong his parents think Greg did it. Manny also tends to be spoiled to the extreme by his mother, such as the time when he threw a tantrum in preschool because his sandwich was cut in halves and not quarters, the way he preferred it. His mom drove all the way from work to make the extra slice. Also, he circled everything in his Christmas catalog and got everything (despite the fact that Greg warned him not to or he'd end up with all clothes). Greg said that Manny 'made out like a bandit', and 'he got EVERY single thing he circled in the catalog, no lie,'. The relationship between Greg and Manny is a very typical one used in many stories, and adds greatly the the comical affect of the novel.
In the third book Manny starts calling his older brother "Ploopy" instead of "Bubby". It was his way of taking his anger out on Greg from when his ruined blanket got thrown away, even though Greg had nothing to do with it. Greg called Manny a "Ploopy" during an easter service at church, and he broke into tears, with the end result of the entire family having to evacuate from the building because he couldn't be controlled. Manny is also known for pulling Greg out of Spag Union after throwing a blanket on a Tree, which shows that Manny can do anything to break people out.
Relationship with Father
Greg's relationship with his father is poor, but not as poor as his relationship with Rowley's father. Greg's father often encourages him by doing active activities such as playing sports or getting exercise. After Greg proves to his father about his talent near the end of Book 3, Greg improves his relationship with his father. However, in Book 4, his relationship breaks when Greg makes his father do a four hour trip to collect him, nearly arrests him for trying to sell him when he actually ment to take him to a Baseball Game. However, the relationship improves little bit by tearing up the final Lil' Cutie in the final sections of Book 4.
Relationship with Mother
Greg finds his mother annoying as she is always trying to get him to read all the time. But even so, she is a very caring mother and gives very useful advice sometimes, while other times her advice just proves that she wasn't listening to a word Greg said, like in book 4 when Greg told his mother that Frank was going to send him to Spag Union and how he wanted her to help get him out of it, but she responds by saying that she thinks he looks good in a Spag Union uniform.
Relationship with Rowley
Rowley is Greg's overall best buddy. They met each other when Rowley moved into Greg's neighborhood. They go to the same school and walk there together, and they share 4 classes.
Rowley has a number of peculiar characteristics which mostly embarrass Greg but sometimes interest him.
Probably the thing about Rowley that Greg resents the most is his lack of macho and with rather strange interests, such as a "Sweet Secrets" diary, an interest in the band singer Joshie (who Greg thinks might be for six-year old girls, although Rowley thought he was just jealous), sensitivity, love for the comic "Li'l Cutie", bumper boats, and kiddie birthday parties, Rowley's not exactly the picture of manliness. In the movie, Greg was talking Rowley into burning a shirt of him and his mom on it that said "Me and my Mommy".
Greg and Rowley have a complex relationship. They are both great friends, but Greg has a habit of treating Rowley poorly and often takes advantage of him for his own selfish desires. Rowley starts out as a pushover in the beginning of the series, being treated poorly by Greg and often following his schemes, but this trait seems to fade away as in the fourth book, as Rowley is starting to lose patience with Greg.
Rowley's dad does not like Greg and uses him as an example of a "bad influence". Although Rowley has been described as "unpopular" by Greg (thinking that he is about the 150th most popular kid in the school), girls seem to like him because he is cute (in a little kid way) and his family is always taking expensive vacations, like going to South America (as mentioned in the beginning of Book 2) and renting a log cabin on their trip to the
beach late in Book 4.
Rowley and Greg begin to slowly drift apart in Dog Days, after several fights and conflicts, which implies that Greg will no longer maintain freindship with Rowley. Greg is also hoping to share the secret of Rowley eating the cheese and about his interests in the last book.
Relationship with Rowley's parents
Greg maintains a very poor relationship with Rowley's father and somewhat mother. The simplest of Greg's actions irritate him, and often Mr. Jefferson restricts him from visiting Rowley sometimes and bans him from visiting the Country Club. In fact, Greg has only had two sleepovers with Rowley that did not end with him getting sent home early. Although having a good relationship with him at the beginning, Greg's haunted house idea breaks down his relationship with him. Greg doesn't like him either due to his temperamental personality.

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