Compare and Contrast the characters of John Pescud and the narrator in '' The Best Seller .''
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John was not a very good looking man he believed that one should be a law abiding citizen and when he and the narrator converse, the narrator gets chance to explore John's view on love, romance and literature. Pescud disapproved of the best sellers as he thought of them as to be unrealistic. He believed that when someone falls for a girl it is never from Chicago or Europe but from stations and streets unlike novels.
He mocked Pescud in the end by calling him Trevelyan, a character from the best seller. Not much account of the narrator was given, who seemed to be a man who was not very keen about politics and was more of a listener. And John criticized the best sellers of portraying mushy romance while his own love story was nonethless.
John believed that a person should be law abiding. On having a conversation with narrator he find the contrasting view on love. He called narrator view unrealistic. He believed when a person falls in love it is never from Chicago or other place but from streets and stations. Narrator considered him a Trevelyan. Even though John criticized the love sense of the narrator, his own love life was in a doom.