Characterization in ''Anna of the five Towns''تصوير الشخصيات
When Arnold Bennet wanted to write novel, he wanted it to be a satire in which he would criticize the society of rural England in his times.
Te be able to do so, he had to choose his characters as patterns to represent this society. He chose a preacher and called him Ephriam Tellwright to be the spokes¬man of the miser, hypocratic class of people. He made him the representative of those contemptible fortune hunters who collected money by any means and lived the life of poverty. To have a contrast, the writer selected another character, Anna, and made her a daughter to that preacher giving her the cha¬racter of a rebel against her father and her society. To show her development in character and to give her external motives of change, the writer put in her way three characters, Henry Minors who tried to in¬vest her fortune for his own sake considering en¬gagement to her as a commercial transaction; Willie Price, the poor honest young man who loved her dearly, but could not reveal his love being afraid of the society and desperate of gaining her love; and Beatrice Sutton who became her friend and showed her how life should be.
By his choice to these characters, the writer introduced some other minor characters to help on the movement of the action and the development of the plot to make the novel end with the situation which it had ended to.
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