The narrator of that novel isn’t real in the same sense that I am real — she exists only on the page, and then in the reader’s imagination — but the influence such a figure can exert on a person’s life most definitely is real.
The narrator of that novel isn’t real in the same sense that I am real — she exists only on the page, and then in the reader’s imagination — but the influence such a figure can exert on a person’s life most definitely is real.