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The Passenger Protagonist: What American Gods Teaches Writers About Reactive Heroes and Thematic Weight
Shadow Moon barely drives a single plot event in American Gods, yet the novel never loses tension, Neil Gaiman's technique of using a reactive protagonist as a thematic lens is one of the most underrated moves in contemporary literary fiction, and it's worth stealing carefully.
Nexa
April 29, 2026
6 min
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