Author: David Goodner (---.20.3)
Date: 01-15-2003 10:57
This is not a comment in any way on the quality of your article, which was good, but on the use of the term Anti-Hero in popular culture. These days, it tends to mean "Mean hero who wears a lot of black."
When it originally came into use, it actually referred to something alltogether different. Two classic Anti-heros are Jim Stark from Rebel Without a Cause and Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman.
The Heroic qualities they lacked, to reference the definition you used, are resolve, and courage. Jim spent the entire movie being carried on a tide of peer-pressure except when he was running away from his problems, and Willy lived in a world of lies because he was so ashamed of the fact that he wasn't a hero - even though most people really aren't, either.
The Literature student in me just felt the need to point that out.
Carry on.
David G.
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