But for some reason characters seem to enter my mind fairly fully conceived.
But the approach works best when novelists account for the fact that money is hardly ever (to paraphrase Richard Yates) the real reason characters act -- when it's treated, rather, as a means to stir up weightier social, psychological and philosophical concerns.
Our choices cause our actions, but our choices are caused by our beliefs and desires (or values, reasons, character traits, etc).
The author has an intelligent interest in innocence, in the reasons characters may well choose the safety of home, duck from the new and guard their secrets.
Neil LaBute's new play uses the same set of characters as Reasons to Be Pretty, seen at the Almeida in 2011.
The reason the character has remained a part of culture is straightforward, according to Bromberg.
That is one more reason the character and the play seem so unchanging.
Narration from actor Caroline Goodall sounds rich and florid for a good reason: her character is Mitchell herself, writing an ornately worded book from the horses' point-of-view.
It is, instead, a renunciation of will even more than of reason: the character played by Gemma Jones lets herself be guided by a smooth operator who doles out comfort and reassurance along with her ironclad dictates.
"I liked the script," he says, "but for some reason the character seemed to have all the answers, and to speak from a higher ground, which wasn't interesting.
