6/10/2023 0 Comments Lincoln author gore![]() ![]() Hay wants to be an actor but is too homely and would like to be a. Vidal also favors a rebel sympathizer, David Herold, who is Hay's age and, coincidentally, favors the same whore at Sal Austin's. ![]() Lincoln "Hellcat" and the President "The Ancient." Throughout the novel, Hay becomes more perceptive about Lincoln's complex personality, which helps deepen the reader's understanding as well. Young, inexperienced Presidential secretary John Hay is a particular favorite for describing events in the Cabinet room and the living quarters of the White House. Smooth segues facilitate multiple perspectives. Instead, he bounces from character to character to borrow their point of view. Rarely, however, does he lay out facts anonymously, even about something as trivial as the weather or scenery. Gore Vidal tells his fictional story of Abraham Lincoln in the third person, past tense without any intermediary narrator. ![]()
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