Wuthering Heights Lord Jim The Great Gatsby and A Passage to India

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. …

…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.