I'm a realist, not an optimist or a pessimist. One could easily imagine an unhappy optimist, and a happy pessimist. Aaron is portrayed as a confident, happy, occasionally naive, optimist. He considered himself to be "an incorrigible optimist" in his thinking. McCarthy was a serious book reader, an optimist, and a staunch supporter of free speech. Hunt is a Church of England Christian and a rational optimist. An eternal optimist, he rarely runs into major personal problems. Her friends see her as an innocent, wide-eyed optimist. The single sail of the Optimist is sprit-rigged. Ever the optimist he was not deterred. Odum has been described as a "technocratic optimist". Negroponte is a digital optimist who believed that computers would make life better for everyone. Clear Lake Optimist Club Past President and Vice President. "Candide" does not ridicule Voltaire's contemporary Alexander Pope, a later optimist of slightly different convictions. Alo Creevey (Will Merrick), something of an optimist, loves his dog and his van foremost.