/lit/ - Literature

>>11278642
And you sound like someone who sympathises with school shooters.

If you're too weak to carry your load and decide that the solution to this problem is not to get stronger, nor to pick a different load, but to lash out at the world, then you're a narcissistic, self-absorbed piece of shit.

And that makes for a really, really hateable villain. I'm not saying it's not tragic, but "anyone would fail in his situation" means that nothing's really the villain's fault - he's a victim of circumstance. Having the villain fail at the test that the protagonist succeeds at gives him complexity without making him overly sympathetic. Nobody will pity him, but they will understand him.

>>11166585
>i refuse to have an actual discussion because i can't get over myself enough to resist pithy insults
Don't expect further reply.

>real fiction
If you get to the end and you didn't understand it, that's the author's fault.

>"literary" fiction
If you get to the end and you didn't understand it, that's your fault.

Defend this.