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In our smaller discussion groups, we talked about relating to a character...if we could, and which one that would be.  I said that I related to Helen the best.. maybe it was her "impetuous thoughtlessness", as was suggested.  I liked that she wasn't predictable.. that she acted on her emotions and just went. Later, thinking about it, I realized that I don't think I relate to her as much as I thought I did... or maybe it was that I wanted to relate to her, that she had qualities that I wanted to in someway embody.  Maybe that's what "relating" to a character is about... finding qualities in them that you want in yourself, and maybe thinking that these qualities are in you, at first, is our way of attempting to see ourselves in that character... or, ourselves with those qualities.