Supporting characters…

Many novels have a large cast of characters. The main characters, protagonist(s) and villain(s), always capture the readers’ attentions, but supporting ones are also important. The main characters interact with them and that makes them all seem a bit more human, assuming they all act like real people to begin with. Every character is an actor on a stage where the stage is your fiction story.

Pirandello wrote the somewhat schizophrenic drama Six Characters in Search of an Author. The problem h...