question

[rwx]

Today's questions:

Do you typically enjoy reading stories or books where you're similar to the protagonist?

Do you typically enjoy watching movies or tv shows where you're similar to the protagonist?

Are there fictional characters that you think you're like? Any like you that you don't enjoy reading about?

based on things that bosstweed and owenthomas have said/written, although Owen said his part a long time ago. I'd be seriously interested in finding out people's answers.

Comments

[frosch.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm particularly good at identifying fictional characters that are similar to myself.

I can remember two novels, though, that were so pathos-laden that I found myself hardly able to finish them: Maugham's Of Human Bondage and Dreiser's An American Tragedy.

Hardy is one of my favorite authors for other reasons, although he tends closely enough to this general direction that I occasionally find him depressing.

In general, I find myself not watching most of the movies that are screened around here (i.e., in my living room and den), at least in part because I identify too strongly with victims of violence and the foolish decisions of others that I find them tedious if not downright unpleasant.

I was reading Maugham and Dreiser while the first marriage was falling apart. I wonder if that has something to do with my reaction.