A protagonist is defined as a leading character in a written piece. The protagonist in a novel sets the story and frequently leads the plot. The protagonists can be analyzed to reveal the moral or meaning of a story. In the following essay, four main characters will be analyzed from E.M. Forester's A Passage to India, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In E.M. …showed first 75 words of 1450 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1450 total…somewhat of a mystery man. He was a mystery because he was never seen directly, only through other people's perceptions. Nobody really knew his identity or him as a person. Gatsby was on a quest in search of something that meant his whole life to him. He wanted to relive the past that he had with Daisy and didn't stop for a second to come back to reality, even though other people told him otherwise.