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trouble with the hero Jordan, y et he is a main character as his wife Pilar is. Minor characters are those in remote and static relation w ith the hero. It is wrong to thin k that minor characters are all unimportant. In some novels, one or some of the minor char acters may serve a critical role, structurally or interpretationally. Foil characters are ones that help e nhance the intensity of the hero by strengthe ning or contrasting. They ma y be main characters or minor characters. In a word, they serve as foils to the hero or heroine. Cohn in The Sun Also Rises is a good example. He is one of the main characters. Like Ja ke, he is also “lost,” try ing vainly to esc ape the past by courting women and drin king. But d uring their stay in Spain, Co hn display s qualit ies in contrast to those cherished by Jake, wh ich makes Ja ke realize h is own problems and finally find a so lution, th ough temporarily. Coh n wor ks mainly by contrast. Wilson in The Great Gatsby works by presenting. Gatsby lost his lover to Tom and Wilson lost h is wife to Tom. By presenting Wilson’s case the novelist inten ds to poin t out the profound cause of Gatsby ’s tragedy. Dr. Watson in the stories of Sherloc k Ho lmes serves as a foil to the hero, rendering the detective smarter than he would o therwise appear to the reader. By the degree of their development, characters can be grouped as round characters and flat characters. This div ision is prop osed by E.M Forster. Round characters are fully developed while flat characters are not. Or we can say that round characters grow while flat characters do not. U sually the reader is allowed access to the inner life of the round character and permitted to learn about many sides of the round character. The flat character is a “closed” character to whose inner thou ghts the reader is denied access. Usually one side of the flat character is shown in the no vel. Mo st heroes are round