After Dark | Character Analysis
After Dark is less like a novel and more like a collection of very short, short stories or vignettes. Readers know little about most of the characters and only enough to guess at the rest. Eri is beautiful and troubled. She is praised, pampered, and preferred by her parents over Mari, or at least that is how Mari sees it. Mari, on the other hand, must muster enough confidence to make it on her own. She loses herself in books and studies. She has learned to be aloof, such as when Takahashi takes an interest in her. She is the type of person who is more than she realizes. She puts...
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