A prominent example of an everyman character is Christian , the protagonist of John Bunyan 's Christian allegory '' The Pilgrim 's Progress '' ( 1678 ) . Other figures often characterized as everymen include : An example of the term 's use in non-fiction is the description in '' Salon '' of Dustin Hoffman 's reaction to the Weather Underground 's townhouse explosion : " ... the news footage of the Greenwich Village townhouse destroyed in 1970 by bomb-making gone wrong in the basement still has enormous impact . Standing in the chaotic street , actor Dustin Hoffman , who lived next door , seems like Everyman at the apocalypse . "
Weather Underground 's townhouse explosion
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
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