Developing Characters

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Create a main character that readers bond with:

Virtually every story aims to establish a bond between the main character and the reader. After all, why would a reader continue to read a story about an unlikable character? There are thematic exceptions, in which the writer’s goal is to examine evil or to convince readers to dislike a character who generally is accepted by society (such as a powerfully businessman who in truth is ruthless).Still, in such cases often the narrator is likable (such as Nick in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby) or we see the tragedy of the main character and feel for his failure (such as Shakespeare’s Macbeth). In any case, such strategies often are the exception to how characters are portrayed in stories. A writer can establish a bond between the main character in a number of ways: ©

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