Saturday’s protagonist functions as a warrant for liberal Western superiority.
Evidence
Here, for all his complacent arrogance, our protagonist Henry Perowne is a guarantee of the good intentions and superior capacity of the middle-class white male, backed up by the assembled achievements of Western civilization set against the barbarians at the gates. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 120
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Perowne’s Janus-faced empathy as a figure for the ‘empathetically limited’ narrator parallels the reading the reader may be doing of Changez’s self-conscious narration.