Word: protagonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Character thus becomes the essential element in Kosinski's fiction. His characters live dramatically, moving in and out of events effortlessly, at times too effortlessly. Through George Levanter, the protagonist in Blind Date, Kosinski provides a vivid example of the "dramatic" lifestyle...
...Kosinski objects violently to this criticism, His novels always portray women "as equally dramatic partners to the protagonist," he said...
Flesh and Blood begins like another version of Rocky. The tale of his protagonist, Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the stage for an incestuous relationship that reveals nothing but perversity, lacking in any sort of meaning, and leaving the book without much purpose or plot...
...more challenging individual performances are also skillfully handled. Andy Sellon, as Littlechap, has the nearimpossible job of generating empathy for this cutthroat protagonist. Littlechap spends the entire play asking for love and approval he doesn't deserve. The audience is supposed to feel sorry for him at the end, when he realizes that he can only love himself. But when he bursts into "What Kind of Fool Am I?" it's a wonder they don't stand up and tell...
Hobie McNatt, the protagonist of John Sayies good and sometimes brilliant second novel, is a runner. Literally, he is a flanker on the football team of his small high school in southern West Virginia coal country. Hobie has speed to burn. Folks remember him as not as strong and bullish as his brother Darwin McNatt, whose fatigue jacket he always wears--Darwin, the boy who hung up his pads to join the army, and came back from Nam a little wacky. But when Hobie is cutting and stepping on the gridiron people scratch their heads and wonder when...