Moral Ambiguity and The Comedic Narrative Voice

Do you have deeply flawed character you want an audience to root for? Try making them funny.

I’ve always been fascinated with how authors and screenwriters get us to support morally ambiguous characters. Think Hamlet, Tony Soprano, or The Hungry Caterpillar. (What? That caterpillar seems to waste a lot of food).

That’s why I’m focusing on how Joe Dunthorne uses comedic narrative voice to humanize Ray, the more flawed protagonist, in his humorous…