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Charles Baxter's Characters
In this critical essay, Molly Winans discusses the strange attributes and the familiarity of Charles Baxter's characters. The writer points out that Baxter's characters such as Ms. Ferenczi are illustrated as strange and unusual individuals, but the characters soon unravel to become sensible. The point of this essay is to explore and explain Baxter's character's in his literature compositions. Winans goes in-depth to explain how characters in Baxter's stories are introduces as strange with little information about them, but more details about the characters start to get revealed. Winans discuses that as the stories in Baxter's progress, so do the characters as they start to grow their characters with the actions taken in each story.
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