Italo Svevo Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Joyce's seminal novel "Ulysses". "Confessions of Zeno" never looks outside the narrow confines of Trieste, much like Joyce's work, which rarely left Dublin in the last years of Ireland's time as part of the United Kingdom. Svevo brings a keenly sardonic wit to his observations of Trieste and, in particular, to his hero, an indifferent man who cheats on his wife, lies to his psychoanalyst and is trying to explain himself to his psychoanalyst by revisiting his memories. There is a final connection between Svevo and the character Cosini. Cosini sought psychoanalysis, he said, in
Protagonist ways, Hamlet is his own antagonist). Sometimes, a work will have a false protagonist, who may seem to be the protagonist, but then may disappear unexpectedly. The character Marion in Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" (1960) is an example. A novel that contains a number of narratives may have a number of protagonists. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle", for example, depicts a variety of characters imprisoned and living in a gulag camp. Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" depicts fifteen major characters involved in or affected by a war. "Little Women" boasts a cast of over five diverse females struggling with the