Toward the End of Time | Characters
Because the narration of Toward the End of Time is in the first-person, and because Ben is a mercurial character, all of the other characters are necessarily projections of Ben\'s conception of them. This is a source of both frustration and opportunity for readers. On the one hand, Ben\'s version of reality is sometimes frustrating since it is limiting; on the other, we are constantly aware of the need to pay attention and read with a critical eye. Updike mastered this approach in short stories like \"A & P,\" \"The Lifeguard,\" and \"The Music School,\" and here, more than in...
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