: I've been having the same problem with my main character --he's not very likeable, but I don't want to knock off his rough edges too early. I've tried different things, but the one I'm most

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I've been having the same problem with my main character --he's not very likeable, but I don't want to knock off his rough edges too early.

I've tried different things, but the one I'm most happy with is giving him goals and values that he personally believes in, even if they are questionable from an objective point of view. Everyone is the hero of his or her own story, and one of the keys to an intrinsically unlikable narrator is guiding the audience to see things from the protagonist's perspective.

I tend to overuse this book as an example, but Lolita is the paradigmatic example of an author building unlikely sympathy for a narrator, who by any objective standard is a complete monster, entirely through skillful use of point of view.

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