Florence, Kentucky. Florence: An aerial shot of Turfway Park race track. Florence: An aerial shot of the interchange of Turfway Road and I-71/75. The white buildings arranged in a triangle are a Hilton hotel, and to the left, the cluster of orange buildings is St Luke Hospital West.
Definition. A protagonist is the main character in a work of literature or movie. With many characters surrounding the protagonist, finding that main character can sometimes be confusing.
By definition, the protagonist is the central character, the one whose struggles we follow with interest (Laurence Perrine, Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, p. 42). We follow Bottom's adventures as an actor and a man with more interest than we do with any other character.