My Dear Lady Disdain

fauxkaren replied to your post: This might in fact be a doing science vs. doing literature thing, actually. Because as you say, people don’t work that way. But these aren’t people! It’s literature. Obviously a character should be internally consistent and have verisimilitude, but — at least to me — fictional characters are narrative constructs first and *people* second. If second. Especially in an epic, which is the form Martin’s riffing with.

I think one of the thing that interests me about Catelyn is that while she is part of the story, in a lot of ways she exists outside of the more mythic or epic elements. Instead, she’s part of the audience, almost commentating on events.

Yeah, and when she becomes more mythic she’s … undone.  I guess you either like it or you don’t, but for me it was an interesting thing.