Love Post #2

Morrison treated her characters a little differently. She showed a fair amount of background on each one of them but nothing too intimate. I'd say she was close to Rabbit, Run in the way she treated her characters. Updike also showed some background to his characters, but nothing substantial that would have the reader treat them any different than the characters' present actions. Morrison did roughly the same thing. She displayed Romen as having a conscience as soon as he helped out the girl who was being raped. Aside from that you only really knew about his home life, but not much else from his past. Almost the same way that Updike had shown Eccles to be a helpful man, but not too much from his past. What I mean to say is that neither Updike nor Morrison were that intimate with their characters.
However I do think that Updike was actually closer to his characters than Morrison. She did not really have a main character. All of her characters played their own part to the story and they all played an important role. Updike focused centrally on Rabbit with support from who Rabbit encountered. Characters would come and go while he was closest to Rabbit.