In 2016 both candidates running for Governor of Missouri in the general election had quite recently changed parties and were running against their former party. How might that have complicated their ability to be reliable narrators and also to make claims about each other as opponents (characters)?
What will be an ideal response?
Audiences like consistency in characters. To suddenly switch allegiances would make them
suspect as unreliable narrators because they could easily seem capricious or unprincipled. It
would be reasonable to expect, then, that both candidates would need to plausibly explain the
reasons behind their change in parties, and how the heroes in their earlier narratives could now
be the villains and the people that they used to praise could be villains. It was unusual that both
candidates had recently changed parties, so one was not disadvantaged by this more than the
other, but both still had to account for the change if they were to deliver compelling arguments
for election. As characters in each other’s narratives, the candidates had to choose especially
carefully how to characterize the opponent, lest they malign their former selves in the process.
They portray themselves as principled heroes in their own narratives.
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