Flashcard sets with a 'anti-hero' term meaning 'a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. he or she may be bewildered, ineffectual, deluded, or merely pathetic. often what antiheroes learn, if they learn anything at all, is that the world isolates them in an existence devoid of god and absolute values. yossarian from joseph heller's catch-22 is an example of an antihero. see also character.'

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