| Amazingly, the protagonist dismisses with understatement the loss of his factory job. |
| The screen comes alive when either the protagonist, or his worthy antagonist, are present. |
| In that book, the protagonist is a professor of agronomics at the University of California. |
| For starters, it has an unlikable protagonist, a man who lies, steals, womanizes, drinks, daydreams and generally epitomizes uselessness. |
| Apart from the change in protagonist, the story arc seems to be much the same. |
| She seems more enamored of her stock hero and his inamorata than of the cultural, anthropological pursuits of her protagonist. |
