Round and Flat

[bekah]

At 6:51 PM +0100 11/4/06, Michel Ryckx wrote:
>So, V. Woolf's Mrs Dalloway can be considered flat?  I miss something here..
>
>
>bekah, quoting F. :
>>Flat characters have one idea behind them.
>>Flat characters are easily recognized emotionally,
>>Flat characters are easily memorable.
>>Flat characters don't change much - their permanence is comforting. 
>>(according to Forster)


I wouldn't think so,  Woolf wrote Dalloway's  interiors using a 
stream-of-consciousness.   (I guess I didn't mention that we usually 
see only the exteriors of flat characters,  not their mental 
processing.)

But!  Who knows?   Considering all the varied answers I've read here 
since the question was posed,  I wonder if the distinction between 
round and flat is relevant to  post-Forster characters.   It's easy 
to see what he means with the characters of Tolstoy and Dickens but 
in Nabokov and Pynchon?

Bekah