Tropic of Cancer | Characters
The first-person narrator of Tropic of Cancer is really its only character. All of the "people" Miller describes are alive only in those moments that they are in the narrator's company. They are primarily sketches of attitudes, something like medieval humours, and they are seen entirely from the outside. Some of them are quite striking as caricature, particularly Van Norden, a portrait of the nonspiritual man as mechanical monster who is something of a psychic double for Miller's worst impulses. The closest thing to a real "character" is the city itself (Miller originally called his...
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