For the protagonist, Lolita is the projection of his childhood sweetheart who died young.
In "A Florentine Tragedy," the ending is happier for the protagonist.
In most coming-of-age tales, we root for the protagonist to grow up.
For the protagonist, as for Clarice Lispector herself, that seems to have been the greatest crime of all.
"Arrival" is an elegant puzzle, an engrossing exercise in problem-solving — for the protagonist, the filmmaker and the viewer alike.
Mr. Fierstein reimagined some characters, adding a feminist love interest for the protagonist, Jack Kelly, and altering parts of the story.
Friends are supposed to protect us against bad things, but, by only pretending to be a friend, Henrietta makes it difficult for the protagonist to protect herself.
The book has an unwieldy third love-interest for the protagonist, a woman whose abject love for him creates the plot twist which saves Rank from the gallows.
If the Zynga story were a Hollywood movie, this would be the close of the second act; the point at which everything goes wrong for the protagonist.
Such is life for the protagonist of Mister Mosquito, a game from SCEJ that gives you the chance to experience life as summer's most annoying pest.
Having evoked the growled contradictions, raffishly engrossing, of his lawyer character, Begley has now, in "Shipwreck," done something equivalent, though more brittle, for the protagonist as writer.
