Their desires, their dreams and aspirations. It’s their crumbling marriages and their struggles to pay the bills on time. It’s the real world problems of King’s characters that ring true. It’s probably safe to say that very few of us have crossed paths with a lonely widow who carries not only a dangerous obsession with a fictional character but also an ax and a blowtorch that she’s been itching to use for some time. We’ve never tried to assassinate a politician because a precognitive vision showed us his true nature. Bernard tries to get in and swallow us whole. Sure, most of us have never been trapped inside a broken-down Pinto while a rabid St. I’d be preaching to the choir if I said one of the most enduring traits of Stephen King’s fiction is the realism of his characters, and how we can all relate to them.
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