disappearance from the narrative

introversion masked as incandescence There is a longtime cultural fascination with the solitary and stoic male protagonist. You can see this as far back as the Homeric idealization of a great man as one singularly possessed by the aim of returning to his wife in Ithaca (so what if there is a seven-year debauched sojourn with Calypso on the way), and as recently in the character of Elliot Alderson,…