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protagonist
in
Ceremony, by Silko
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- Before I began the funny story about Harley, I twice tried to develop a young female protagonist to be the main character of a novel; but I found I was too self-conscious and failed to allow my fictional woman to behave independently of my image of myself.†
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- After Ceremony was published, some readers remarked on my male protagonist and many male characters, something of a novelty for female novelists in the English language.†
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- Besides, I thought, male novelists write about female protagonists all the time, so I will write about men.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(protagonist) the main character in a work of fiction
or more rarely:
an important supporter or main figure of someone or something - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)