Consider Swift's presentation of two of the characters in 'Waterland' who you find most effectively portrayed.
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Consider Swift's presentation of two of the characters in 'Waterland' who you find most effectively portrayed. In "Waterland" Swift weaves a magical yet haunting tale of ordinary characters who live through they're own struggles and problems unadorned by the complexity of world history yet forever revolving around the isolated and mysterious Fenns. His characters are a formidable mix of the stereotyped and the unordinary as he shows us how even the most common person can lead the strangest and most complex life and display a vast range of opposed emotions and thoughts. "Waterland" is a profound study of human nature that not only displays the intricacies of people but also analyses the men and woman that live among us and for which each of us can find a name. Thus we all know an Ernest Atkinson, a bourgeois born into wealth who finds a meaning in life in the...

