Latour occupies both positions in the novel, his struggle is primarily with himself. I suggest Death Comes for the Archbishop collapses the normal opposition between protagonist with antagonist by making these figures the same person. Fr. The antagonist in this story is rather difficult to discern. The indefatigable Father Jean Latour is clearly the protagonist of Death Comes For The Archbishop. In literary terms, the protagonist is the “hero” of the text – he is the central figure who faces a conflict and attempts to resolve it. The conflict is usually associated with the antagonist, who opposes the hero, fuels the conflict, and tries to thwart the hero’s progress. Narrative is driven by conflict, and the typical novelistic paradigm for generating conflict is the pairing of protagonist and antagonist. Yet the text invites a particular critical question regarding the dramatic narrative of Bishop Jean Latour.
Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is a magnificent novel and a classic of American literature – of these facts there is wide consensus.
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