Disagreement

The author uses the relationship between Anthony the character and Hawthorne to show how their personal disagreements taint their business relationship. Anthony’s only association with Hawthorne is that he is supposed to be his ghostwriter. He spends time with him to document information about the case and learn how Hawthorne goes about solving it. On several occasions, however, Anthony the character almost ends his business relationship with Hawthorne because he does not like his views even though he admits that Hawthorne is good at his job and helped improve the series he had served as a consultant on. Anthony says, “…to be fair, Hawthorne was very good at the job. He had an instinctive understanding of what I needed and what would work on-screen: (21). He tells readers how Hawthorne’s knowledge made a particular scene “come alive” (21). Yet, because of his disagreement with the way...