A whole section of the Paris press serves the many readers sympathetic to the OAS: two dailies "L'Aurore" and "Le Parisien Libere"; the latter also prints the weekly "Carrefour".
It gives the reader a sympathetic portrait of the artist as a young man: conflicted, self-conscious and, like many of his characters, yearning for connection yet stymied by the whirring of his brain and the discontinuities of an America reeling from information overload.
The monologues make clear the radical originality of Browning's new manner: they involve the reader in sympathetic identification with the interior processes of criminal or unconventional minds, requiring active rather than merely passive engagement in the processes of moral judgment and self-discovery.
Early in the book, he claims that Stratton Oakmount targeted only wealthy, qualified investors; that claim serves both to explain how Belfort eluded the Securities and Exchange Commission for so long and makes the reader less sympathetic to the investors, who presumably knew they were getting involved with high-risk stock and could afford their losses.
And even a reader sympathetic to Cusk's iconoclasm is perplexed by her illogic.
Additional layers of interpretation open themselves up, the reader is more sympathetic.
The most explicit images threaten to implicate the reader, transforming a sympathetic eye into a voyeuristic one.
As long as Mr. Nesi writes about his own life, about his love of books and movies, and about his job, his joys, his regrets and even his guilt, it is easy for the reader to feel sympathetic.
The muck-raking critics of the robber barons, she contends, have so demonised the reputation of America's greatest financier that "it does the democratic tradition an injustice not to see other dimensions of the story now".Forewarned, in the introduction, by the author's declaration of intent, the reader expects a sympathetic biography.
The incident feels especially shocking because by this point in the book, almost halfway through, the reader is so sympathetic to Martin — the guy slaved for years analyzing comedians on television, studying them in clubs, torturing himself to deliver something radically new, all the while waiting for even the tiniest recognition — that you take the heckler's assault personally.
