Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 11 AIL 1043 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Sympathetic Character
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The idea
Readers assume the character given most space is the one to side with. Dickens gives Gradgrind the whole opening and condemns him throughout it. Attention is not endorsement, which is unit five's warning about Browning's Duke in prose form.
In practice
Attention is not endorsement.
Where people slip
The same warning as unit five's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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