G the Male Painter

In “The Stuntman,” G is the male painter whose storyline the third person narrator traces. G lives with his wife “in a region of forests some distance from the city” (3). Now late in his career, G feels “angry and hurt by the world and [cannot] bring himself to forgive it” (3). He is bitter and frustrated, because his early work was not well-received and he still has not recovered from this criticism. Desperate to prove his value and relevance as an artist, G starts to paint upside down. The works create a stir in the art world, and people begin to pay G the attention he has sought. Even G’s wife is shocked by the paintings, as she feels that they capture the “feeling of everything seeming right yet being fundamentally wrong,” which she understands as a fundamental facet of being a woman (4). G derives...