“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer: Host Personality, Melanie, and Alternate Personality, Wanderer, are in conflict in this Multiple Personality story.

“The two main characters,” says Stephenie Meyer, “who are, you know, sharing a body have things I want to be and things I wish I weren’t…You have Melanie, who’s really, really strong physically — and I wish I could be like her because she can do anything. Nothing stops her. She’s really, really strong emotionally, so she can handle anything. But she also can be really mean. Whereas Wanderer, the other personality, is totally compassionate, absolutely cannot hurt another person, and is just as kind as I would wish to be. But she’s weak, too…And so they both have things that I want and things that I wish I didn’t have” (1, pp. 179-180).

Judging by the biography, neither Stephenie Meyer nor her novel ever mentions multiple personality. Wanderer is supposed to be an alien soul who has come to Earth to take possession of Melanie’s body. There is no acknowledgement that two-personalities-in-one-body is multiple personality.

1. Chas Newkey-Burden. Stephenie Meyer: Queen of Twilight. The Biography. London, John Blake, 2010.