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Characters and Actions Mismatching

Submitted by ttruong on Mon, 04/30/2007 - 4:38pm.

I have to agree with Gaby in that Smith purposefully destroys Howard's life using very inane, unbelievable situations. The characters' actions are sometimes too arbitrary for me. their actions are not very congruous with personality types that were delivered to the readers. it's like the crimes don't match the profile.

I'm still very much confused about Victoria I can't really label her as anything. She's just so random and acts conflictingly. I'm a little frustrated at Smith because she simply used Victoria for other purposes concerning other characters without fullly developing Victoria as a character. I think when I read a book i prefer to have character has a sort of persona they they fit nicely into, making it very easy for readers to find understand their next actions with the background information given.

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