But illuminated by Henderson's sympathy, this tortured zealot becomes both victim and villain, an endlessly fascinating character caught in the confluence of personal tragedy and America's darkest fears.
Updike's anti-hero is put in the present tense partly because he is a character caught in a round of habits, and a man who never seems to know what is going to hit him.
Miss Fletcher's strategy was to keep the plot simple: perhaps deploying just one idea with a central character caught in a "baffling and haunting situation, endlessly in doubt, tortured by circumstance, and then see what happens".Fine performers were happy to speak her lines, among them Agnes Moorehead, Ida Lupino and Orson Welles.
The story's only truly super-powered being, Manhattan gains godlike power over matter and space-time after being caught in an experiment; the character is the vehicle for Watchmen's most trenchant interrogations of how superhumans might actually be used by governments (basically, as weapons).
Like a sitcom character caught in an escalating series of fibs, Trump took things further and further.
River makes Chris become a deep, sensitive character caught in life circumstances that have forced him to erect a rough exterior.
River makes Chris becomes a deep sensitive character caught in life circumstances that have forced him to erect a rough exterior.
Cinema-goers had begun to tire of war films, and his next venture, Turned Out Nice Again returned to less contentious issues, with Formby's character caught in a domestic battle between his new wife and mother.
Altman has his smooth-flowing sequences in which the camera picks up a character, drops him, picks him up again, and then moves on to other characters caught in the middle of some chewed-over dispute or tangled reminiscence.
The captain is just one of many compactly realized minor characters, caught in a sentence or two.
