Characters are very important to a story. They help to build up the interest of readers so that they want to continue reading. Many stories base their themes on how the characters act and what they do. A theme is a meaning or a point to the story, which the author wants you to get out of it. Two stories which utilize characters very well to build up theme are, "Bartleby the Scrivener," by Herman Melville, and "The Flight of Betsey Lane," by Sarah Orne Jewett. These two stories build the theme of individualism up with their unique characters in their stories.
In each of these stories, they start out with intense descriptions of the characters. Each story describes the subtle but important difference between each character. However, with the main characters, differences are much more prominent. For example, in "Bartleby the Scrivener," one of the main characters, the narrator, whose name we never learn, is a "rather elderly man" who works as a boring lawyer (Melville 26).......

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Title: Characters With A Twist
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