Prairie vs. Zoyd as Protagonist of Vineland

[David Morris]

Two (surviving) victims in the wake of a female abandoner.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I think the problem is that Zoyd and prairie are both seeking to find and/or make sense of Frenesi, and maybe, in the process, become a family.  One quest, two questers.  So we end up with two partial protagonists, rather than the dual protagonists of V., who are on related, but separate quests: Benny running away from both the human and the inanimate (maybe?); Stencil seeking an individual who's both human and inanimate.
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> In GR, one person, one quest. Even when Slothrop disappears from large swathes of the novel, we never doubt that he's the protagonist.