ATDTDA (3) Dynamitic mania, 80-86

[Monte Davis]

> One other thing that AtD shares with VL is the focus
> on a character who is, for much of the book, absent... 

> Similar to Slothrop, Webb becomes indistinct 
> and quite literally fragmented, and the majority of the 
> reader's interaction with him as a character is through other 
> people.  

As Webb is dead by p. 198 of 1085 pp, isn't it a stretch to say the book is
focused on him -- seances nothwithstanding?

While I'd certainly agree that his temperament *refracts* four ways into
those of his children, that's true of countless family narratives. I don't
see much similarity to Slothrop's fragmentation.