In the development of the character Tandolfo, in the story, “Tandolfo the Great”, Richard Bausch gives the character a multiple of desire, visual clue of his appearance, and reveals his thought. First, the use of character as desire develops the character of Tandolfo strongly. The author states, “Tandolfo”, he says to his own image in the mirror over the bathroom sink. “She loves you not, you goddam fool” (118). Right at the start Bausch underlines the character desire for a women who don’t love him back, and throughout the story Bausch gives this character other desires like entertaining the childrens at the party and his deep needs for people to see his true self makes the character of Tandolfo more interesting to the readers. Secondly,
