Protagonist

The book I chose is an authobiography, not a play, so there is no protagonist nor antagonist. The main character, Henry Miller describes his life in Paris, France. He is an artist, who except for taking advantage of the rich and chasing women does not really do anything. The book does not really have a plot, it is just Henry meeting people. Most of the characters were not even interesting or were not introduced at all, so I found myself confused about who was who. Actually, from the book it seems that almost every character is an antagonist. Henry hates or just disagrees with most of the people mentioned in the book. He hates Boris, because he never takes him out between the people from the high society. He does not like Carl and Van Norden for being too pessimistic. Sylvester for his pride and for being in a relationship with Tania, Ginette for lying, Claude for being a delicate whore, Borowski for being a pain in the ass. And others just for being Jewish. Henry is sarcastic most of the time, so the characteristics he gives might be exagerrated. Even though he thinks Boris is an idiot, it is still his friend and they work on a book together. He hates Sylvester for being with Tania, but he visits them every Friday for supper. He hangs out with Borowski too. While reading the book I wished I could meet the people, some of them seemed to be really fun around.

Protagonist - The main character in a novel, or other fictional text

Antagonist - The rival of the novel's main character

This is an interesting video - Henry talks about taking advantage of people - this is exactly the dinner he enjoys, good food, wine, cheese... Enjoy watching