Miss Lonelyhearts | Characters
West wrote that Miss Lonelyhearts is like a comic book, with each chapter a square in which many things are happening at once. Indeed, the characters are portrayed with a cartoonist's spareness of traits. Yet in face of the novel's central issue of suffering and coping with it, each character can be seen to have a focus of suffering and a successful or unsuccessful method of staving it off. Also, each character affects Miss Lonelyhearts' crisis and quest for a universal solution, as well as representing part of the Depression world that West observed, and relating to figures in...
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