Central character?

[Campbell]

Am I the only one who feels that rather than Pip Tyler, Andreas Wolf has a much stronger claim to being described as the central character in this novel?

I feel strongly that a case could be made in which he is the one by whom the plot is driven and that it is his puppet master-like string pulling to which everyone else is responding.

[Brian]

Agreed. Actually I felt there was no central character, the book stayed so far away from Pip for so long I almost forgot about her! It spent SO much time fleshing out the histories of Anabel, Tom (and their families as well) it felt like there was no central person at all!

I do see what you mean, Andreas was kind of in everything though.

[M. Summers]

Andreas as the "Anti-Pure" character, the antithesis of the title. Does this make the title a joke? Certainly an Irony?

[[deleted user]]

This is a novel about the effect of the internet on human relations. Fractured, half-lies if not more. The idea that if it's on the internet, it must be true. It is social commentary. It is speculation. The internet has no central characters, the beliefs we draw from it are smoke in the wind. It is manipulative and full of lies. How do you live your life, even if your life has facts, as Andreas's did, when the environment in which you live the time following that is lived in the ether? Where nothing is true and nothing is false. Eventually, that outlook becomes one's manner of thinking. That is what this book is about.