This article will explore how the discourse of deprivation runs through the configuration of the writer character in the poem «El lamento del sargento de Aguas Verdes» («The lament of the sergeant of Aguas Verdes» (1974), by Jorge Pimentel, and in the film 2046 (2004), directed by Wong Kar-wai. The selected texts comprise the representation of writing characters whose life experiences related to deprivation differ from one another, affected by gender, race, social class, culture and socio-political context. The aim of this paper is to find points of comparison, in that it identifies constancies in the types of conflicts faced by the writers and understands the impact that the aforementioned points of divergence may have on how deprivation and its consequences are dealt with. It is proposed that there is a constancy of economic deprivation that underpins the repetition of the act of w...