Re: Intersting point? AND Flat antagonist?

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From: Fred Welden
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:05

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In article <Bxx2D1.L84@unx.sas.com>, sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden) writes:
|I am
|certain that you can have a story without an antagonist.  Examples that
|leap to mind are "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and THE ACCIDENTAL
|TOURIST.

Hmm.  On rethinking that it occurs to me that Walter Mitty has an
obvious antagonist in his wife.  So let me substitute another Thurber
story, "The Night the Bed Fell," in its place.


-- 
--Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC  |  sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
        Hellenic poet of the same name.  |

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