Manhattan Transfer | Characters
In characterization, as in techniques and themes, Manhattan Transfer is a breakthrough for its author. Although he pioneered the contrasting of three distinct intersecting narratives in Three Soldiers (1921) and Streets of Night (1923), for the first time in his work Dos Passos used characterization techniques that would become his trademark. The focus is on the characters as satiric rather than empathic vehicles, and a tendency toward what many critics call the "picaro" style of characterization, which involves a tendency to tell several characters' stories from...
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