Three sets of characters, tripling the opportunities to go for the obvious.
Both sets of characters endure (and inflict) all sorts of suffering.
Perez-Reverte unravels his mystery by cutting back and forth among discrete but converging stories and sets of characters.
It's a complicated piece, played in two time frames (1809 and the present) by two sets of characters.
Franzen is obviously trying to make us see the tremendous difference in scope between the two sets of characters.
If you enter two sets of characters (for example, "wil tra"), it will try to match them both against the name and department fields.
The focus: three intersecting sets of characters that effectively define the forces destined to shape America throughout the rest of the century.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" involves three sets of characters -- couples in courtship, a fairy queen and her court, and a group of vagabond actors.
In "Losing Louie" two sets of characters, separated by 40 years, bicker and smooch in the same space, an airy middle-class bedroom filled with sturdy furniture.
But separated by a 45-mile drive on winding mountain roads, the two places and the two sets of characters in this tale are worlds apart.
It dovetails perfectly with a simple but brilliantly effective staging that brings together the drama's three sets of characters to consistently engaging effect.
