The UVic Writer's Guide
Protagonist
The protagonist in a work of fiction is the character with whom the reader is
meant to be chiefly concerned; she or he is the main character,
who, whether sympathetic or not, is the focus of the plot. A work of narrative or drama may have more than one protagonist.
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