In Barbara Kingsolver's novel, The Poisonwood Bible, the domineering Nathan Price is a static character whose potential for development is demolished by his extremism. Nathan abuses others in his vainglorious interests and leaves afterward a broken family, a dead little girl, and a ventured on society that never welcomed him in any case. Nathan, a microcosm of the severe western effect on the Congo, is a definitive lowlife – who's foul fingers have dismantled a society and a family and left the pieces excessively spiked, making it impossible to ever fit right again. Through perspectives, universe and microcosm and Nathan's own remarks, Kingsolver lights up the subject that the scoundrel does not get the last word; Kingsolver analyzes both the
