Stereotypes : Hercule Poirot

Today I want to talk about stereotypes and particularly the fact that sometimes a fiction's character could represent a country. I hesitated between Hercule Poirot or the movie Crocodile Dundee in which we have a specific vision of australians.

When I say that he could be represent a country I think of Hercule Poirot a character who was created by Agatha Chrisie one of crime novalist the most knows (She was english). She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections,and the two characters who are famous are Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
 

The character of Hercule Poirot who is Belgian, his job is private detective (As Sherlock Holmes we can think that this kind of character is a speciality in England)
 Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles published in 1920 and we can underline the fact that this character was the most loved by the readers (Agatha Christie's reader) . Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of The New York Times. The public loved him and Agatha Christie refused to kill him off, claiming that it was her duty to produce what the public liked. When Agatha Christie created Poirot she said that she was inspired by the numerous stories of Sherlock Holmes and maybe that's why the books (in which he is) are loved by her readers and nowadays for example my mother or one of my brothers love the enquiries lead by him. (Or rather we can say by the author) This character is so much knows that some producers decide to create a serie which has the name of the main character. 
 

So to conclude we can underline the fact that sometimes a country could be represented by a fictional character or rather a symbol as in France Marianne or I don't know who or what.