imaginarycircus

I have been getting great feedback from readers and most of it is reinforcing things I already knew were missing or are ineffective. The good news is that readers seem to be finding the thing more or less readable. My biggest problem right now is my main female character who is just plain intractable. She should start to open, but not fully bloom through out the novel--but that makes it so hard to write. I'm trying to think of novels in which a character does that. I think Harriet Vane is a little like that, but the transition happens over the course of several books.

Holden Caulfield makes very little transition and I think that is one reason some people hate Catcher in the Rye--though of course transition isn't the point in that novel.

Charles De Lint has some well handled emotional and psychological transitions in his novels, but I hesitate to use him for a model.

Madeleine L'Engle has a nice transition in House like a Lotus and I think that's almost what I'm going for in some ways. My story is very different and I think I just realized Allie needs to forgive herself a little too. Huh.

Can anyone think of others examples?