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The Doloriad - Question 3 - A Protagonist?
Though the book is named after Dolores, can we claim that she is the central character? Could we call her a protagonist or something else? Or would it be a different character, or perhaps no specific character? Did you like this aspect as the reader?
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Dolores as the main character reminded me very much of Sarah Canary as the main character of her novel - in so many ways. I thought Sarah Canary was the much better novel by a longshot, and much less bleak. But in both cases, the main character is more like an object or an ideal that the other characters project themselves upon, which means she is a different person to each character. She's also just something that events get hung around - kind of like the giant helmet in the Castle of Otranto, maybe? I'm trying to think of a novel named after an object where the plot hinges around the object, which itself has no agency, but I'm coming up blank at the moment.
Sarah Canary is not a book I am familiar with at all.
Even though the book was probably named after Dolores, it felt to me like there actually was no real main character, and certainly no protagonist. The apocalyptic world felt to me almost like it was the character that interested me the most.
I also cannot think of a novel named after an object in that way.