Have you ever wondered what a story would be like without some of the minor characters? You most likely wouldn’t know the main character’s personality as well right? A subordinate character has an important role in the story without being the protagonist. In “The Most Dangerous Game”, “A Worn Path”, and “A Rose for Emily”, all have subordinate characters that contribute to making the story understandable.
Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, starts off with the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, having a conversation with Whitney about hunting. Rainsford believes that “the world is made up of two classes―the hunters and the huntees.” When Whitney brings up the feelings of the jaguar, Rainsford rejects the idea that it has “the …show more content…
During the story the people talk about how her father kept he hid away from the outside world, when her house smelled extremely bad so they had to spread lime around, and when everyone thought she would kill herself because she wanted poison. A subordinate character in this short story would be Homer Barron. Homer Barron was a “Northerner, a day laborer” and was in the south to pave the roads. He said to others in the club that “he was not a marrying man”. However, Emily had bought him a man’s toilet set in silver, with H. B. on each piece suggesting to the town that they were married. When the roads were done he left, only to come right back after Emily’s cousins had gone. After that, the town never saw him again. Towards the end of the story, the cousins talk about wanting to see a back room that hadn’t been opened in forty years. When they go in, they find Homer Barron’s skeleton on the bed. Without Homer in this story, it wouldn’t be a complete story. A reader would have hints to Emily’s issues and her killing Homer, but there would be no Homer to kill. A reader couldn’t infer Emily’s personality without Homer in the
Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, starts off with the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, having a conversation with Whitney about hunting. Rainsford believes that “the world is made up of two classes―the hunters and the huntees.” When Whitney brings up the feelings of the jaguar, Rainsford rejects the idea that it has “the …show more content…
During the story the people talk about how her father kept he hid away from the outside world, when her house smelled extremely bad so they had to spread lime around, and when everyone thought she would kill herself because she wanted poison. A subordinate character in this short story would be Homer Barron. Homer Barron was a “Northerner, a day laborer” and was in the south to pave the roads. He said to others in the club that “he was not a marrying man”. However, Emily had bought him a man’s toilet set in silver, with H. B. on each piece suggesting to the town that they were married. When the roads were done he left, only to come right back after Emily’s cousins had gone. After that, the town never saw him again. Towards the end of the story, the cousins talk about wanting to see a back room that hadn’t been opened in forty years. When they go in, they find Homer Barron’s skeleton on the bed. Without Homer in this story, it wouldn’t be a complete story. A reader would have hints to Emily’s issues and her killing Homer, but there would be no Homer to kill. A reader couldn’t infer Emily’s personality without Homer in the