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n. The main protagonist in a work.
Usage examples of "lead character".
In other screenplays, the lead character believed her husband was going to kill her.
Some mystery writers favor the first person viewpoint for telling a story-that is, telling it through the eyes and the mind of the lead character.
He complained that my lead character was both dull and foolish -- and he was right.
Because you know I bet the studio could adapt it, and if you mentioned my name for the lead character—.
Second and slightly more important was the fact that I didn't much like the lead character.
But my researcher discovered the Kingdom of Samo, unlisted in most references, and since my lead character for that chapter was Sam, I couldn't resist.
Clio hadn't been aware of that effort, but Metria had appeared in many recent volumes, once as the lead character.
Can you imagine the other characters sitting around, waiting for a lead character who never appears?
Long after the day of which I now write, Ozzie had told me to keep the tone of this manuscript as light as possible by being an unreliable narrator, like the lead character in Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.