Realist prose splits readers by how far their suspension of disbelief extends.

Evidence

Prosaic realism thus arguably hampers readerly identification, enforcing a distinction between those for whom the necessary willing suspension of disbelief required by all literature extends only to the limits of the empirically credible, and those willing to go along with an internally imposed schema wherein God is effectively both authority and author of the outcome. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 498

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s framework in which the reader’s own position determines how the tale is received — belief and disbelief here are not internalized descriptions.