But he deliberately avoids depicting the character clearly, preferring to depict instead 'the effect of the person' through the house visits and other interactions.

Yet precisely because he depicts his characters as fullyfledged human beings, he cannot help but present them as the authors of their own destiny.

Here, as elsewhere, the author depicts the character as being without any saving graces whatsoever.

The star's gurning segues fluently into the witty specialeffects sequences that depict his character's wilder mutations.

He's deceptively brilliant at depicting a character's emotional state and, while their faces are no more than a few lines, there's vulnerability and tenderness.