The Importance of Syncrisies in Fiction

As a character, Levinson himself is not quite normal, so to speak. We don't get the kind of stuff about him that we might with the more traditionally realistic maximalist writer. He's a character who we find out very quickly, you know, wishes that he had been a civil engineer or urban planner. It makes us realize again how careful the writer is here and saying, now this character only belongs in this story.