NPPF -- Why care about Kinbote?

[The Great Quail]

To address Terrence's question:

Kinbote is sympathetic because he is *pathetic.* Even though he is a
loathsome, grotesque, horrible, loveless man, he is most likely out of
control of his own actions, and is, at heart, also a sad, broken,
friendless, desperate man. And while this state of affairs is the probably
result of his own actions, with or without the additional burden of
schizophrenia, he is nevertheless pathetic, and therefore earns our
sympathy, and maybe even fondness. (A fondness we can grant because we are
not his next door neighbor!)

--Quail