Trout Fishing in America | Characters
The unnamed narrator is the only significant character in this antinovel that mocks traditional approaches to characterization, and his character can only be guessed at by carefully judging his manner of narration. His passivity indicates that his purpose is to understand rather than to change. He treats the beautiful and the grotesque equally, and this sense of objective disengagement makes his vision of America convincing. Trout Fishing in America — a Protean phrase applied to people, a place, a hotel, a pen nib, a state of mind, and the book itself — becomes a kind of...
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