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Why must a protagonist be likable? I feel most comfortable writing
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Why must a protagonist be likable?

I feel most comfortable writing entitled characters who get laid low by dangerous situations.
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>>8236962
nobody said they had to be

lots of canon literature has unlikeable protagonists. hamlet, catcher in the rye, the list could go on
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>>8236962
This is where an engaging story comes in handy.
I hated the Talented Mr Ripley, but I kept watching to see him get caught. Disappointment he didn't, but it was still well written enough.
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>>8237008
>I hated the Talented Mr Ripley, but I kept watching to see him get caught. Disappointment he didn't, but it was still well written enough.
of course the fake butterfly watches the movies of highsmith.

stop half assing the bookish dyke part if you want to pretend to be our dead gf.
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>>8237016
It's true, I haven't read any of her books yet. I was working at a theatre when the film came out. I appreciated the Hitchcock like atmosphere, but it wasn't satisfying for me to see him get away. I had no sympathy for him at the time.

Carol was really well done and probably better than the book in one respect I read about
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The protag doesn't have to be likeable. They only have to be human.
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>>8236962
They don't.

This >>8237124 is bullshit too. There doesn't even really need to be a "protagonist".
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>>8236966
those are likable characters.
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