At 10:51 AM 14/11/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>No idea. Are they? The story's told by Frank. Cain
doesn't offer any
>opinions. For all I know, he was married to a
Greek-Mexican.
Going back to where this thread began, I think Postman is an
excellent example of plot revealing character. So much story,
so much happens to these people I think we often forget how
slim this book is- about 120 pages. The two characters
meeting, trying to move apart then together again, two
attempts at murder, a trial, blackmail and another murder,
finally death. And we learn about its characters, who seem
very real and complex to me, through what they do and say,
not through long passages of analysis and creative writing
designed to tell the reader what the character is thinking or
feeling.
Sometimes I think my least favourite sentences are the ones
that begin "He was the type of person who..."
Kerry
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