I didn’t bother with the morality of the hero. Is Lolita a bad book because it’s about a pedophile? Should writers feel like their characters will be competing in a popularity contest in the minds of the readers? Should we then only read books about angels floating happily in Heaven, doing good things? Aren’t evil and immorality – whatever they mean – facts of life that should be dissected and explained by literature? They ignore the book and get too tangled up in how likeable the characters are. I was like, don’t take it personally, lady he’s not your husband.
Like when I was looking at the reviews of John Updike’s Run, Rabbit and saw a woman saying that she hated the book because Angstrom left his wife twice in the book. It always bewilders me when people judge a book according to the moral judgment that they pass on its characters.
So, I was glancing through some of the reviews here and noticed that someone has totally disparaged this book because its “hero” is immoral.
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