4.28.2011

Unlike The Bazaar

Place and fit a character into her world, provide ample room for her to show her intellect and grace in situations with others, and in a way, give her the sword to pull from the stone, and still mistakes on the part of the author make her fleeting. For the critic, in his stupefaction, a character portrayed in situations exposing her place and existence received such a light examination of her features, that even in her featureless state she vibrated with energy and warmth or stolidly and coldly sat through abuse. How was this? The nature of her kept her in the eye in a way that was secondary to her fellow characters, but not once did we look away from her general area. She is a character exposed through a variety of method, a gathering of superb interactions that kept her always being re-examined and re-understood, vibrancy then being the constant changing and the hows and whys of her growth; all this from a secondary character.

Central characters, such that they were sincerely cast throughout the novel and kept with the course of all transpiration, required an even-handed disgust of the novelist. The tension surrounding the characters came not singularly as their situations, but also their awkwardness under the words on the page. The novelist must have kept at the language of their text in order to tax the writing of it, to slow the novelist down and force consideration. The slow process the critic unraveled through piecing together his memory of the text showed the novelist gave full resources to each situation and required the character their slow machinations. What came as a short text must have had such a multi-layered platform of texts behind it that in the end what could have been a seam filled bazaar became a streamlined float down a river. Sure, the river had its rapids, but what could have been a text of plodding came off as a quick and light text, but engorged with the characters themselves, their heavy blood, and pulling, in a way, pulling the critic back to the beginning of the text he needed to reread and find what caused such momentum.