CRWR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sympathetic Resonance, Mavis Gallant
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Beautiful > aesthetically active and effective, attractive to readers enticing, captivating. Disappears out of sight > uncertainty about whats to come > rst whiff of stakes = Living characters: get out of the characters way, describe them, let them speak to reveal who they are, give them opinions, the ability to criticize, to nd things funny or not . Character qualities live on a spectrum (what you"re born with ex. height, skin colour, etc) > otherwise obtained (how we dress, religion etc) given < > chosen. How they came to want one thing over another. Mavis gallant on what her characters carry: name, age, nationality, particular voice and accent, family background, personal. 2. history profession, destination qualities, secrets, an attitude towards love, money, ambitions, religion and a private centre of gravity. Subject: knowing these things about your characters is incredibly powerful in determining attitude, speech, action and thought.
