I went looking for the definition of antihero, and I found one that agrees with what I thought -- a protagonist who lacks the qualities of a hero -- Yossarian from Catch-22was given as the example. Though Yossarian has a presence -- I think his intellectual keenness counts for a lot. I write about innocents, and instead of getting more alienated, they go all around the alienation thing and find connection hidden under a rock behind it. So they're not Yossarians.
I like the classical hero well enough to read in other people's work and I think it's possible that I may want to write one sometime too. But just what interests me as a writer is this state of stymiedness and underequippedness and being in deep and strange waters not knowing well how to swim. I'm interested in how the fellow can dogpaddle and use the dead man's float to get to shore, and what shore that will bring him to.
THere's a certain lust factor in choosing to write about men, too, I have to admit -- at least when I first conjure the physical features of the person -- when I am thinking about their eyes, their posture, their color,the way they chew on their fingers when they're uncertain. But that gets overwhelmed by the story very soon.
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I like the classical hero well enough to read in other people's work and I think it's possible that I may want to write one sometime too. But just what interests me as a writer is this state of stymiedness and underequippedness and being in deep and strange waters not knowing well how to swim. I'm interested in how the fellow can dogpaddle and use the dead man's float to get to shore, and what shore that will bring him to.
THere's a certain lust factor in choosing to write about men, too, I have to admit -- at least when I first conjure the physical features of the person -- when I am thinking about their eyes, their posture, their color,the way they chew on their fingers when they're uncertain. But that gets overwhelmed by the story very soon.