Forster famously divides all characters into flat and round. With stories, we can reread the text we can look for connections that we may have missed and perhaps reshape our insight. If we get to know them better, see what they say and do, then we develop a more realistic understanding of their complexity and possibilities. Meeting someone for the first time, we form some general ideas about them based on our past experiences of other people (thematic types). We make sense out of characters basically in the same way that we make sense of people in our daily lives. Mainly they are people, sometimes divine, and in certain stories, animals, or even things that usually cannot speak or act. A character counts as anyone or anything in a story that can speak and act.
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