The Left Hand of Darkness | Characters
Two strong characters dominate the novel. One is the narrator and protagonist, Genly Ai, both the "I" involved and the "eye" observing. He moves from innocence and misperception through experience to understanding. At first naive and egotistic, he responds negatively to the Gethenian Estraven's subtle style, which he deems effeminate but which is actually highly skilled "shifgrethor." Estraven is much more complex than Genly Ai, in some ways representing the feminine side of the man which he has always failed to understand or even to recognize. Through their shared sufferings they both...
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