6/22/2023 0 Comments Return of the native eustacia vyeBut there's a strong argument to be made that Eustacia is in fact the real protagonist of the story. If we go with a strictly traditional point of view, then Clym is probably the official protagonist – he is the hero who ties all the other characters together and whose story drives the narrative. And even when they are arguing with each other, we kind of want them both to win somehow. We sympathize with both and root for both. So we'd like to propose that both of these characters are protagonists. And while Clym is largely absent from the start of the story, making it more Eustacia's, Eustacia is dead and gone by the end of the story, making it more Clym's. Clym has the shout-out in the title going for him (he's the "native"), but Eustacia kicks-off the novel for us. Why two protagonists here? Well, it's all part of the trickiness of a love story that places the two participants on fairly equal footing in terms of the narrative – which one do you side with? In this story, we'd really say that it's a matter of perspective. Protagonist Character Role Analysis Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright
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