One interesting aspect of the H. Hatterr novel is the small number of recurrent characters. We have Hatterr and Bannerji, and a little bit of info from the background character "Kiss-Curl," - okay, and the dog Jenkins - but otherwise, characters come and go with each chapter. The panorama that readers get from Hatterr's mind is pretty narrow: there is an influx of people, things, circumstances, propositions, but there are few actually persisting elements.
If there were more consistent elements, I think we might be able to track patterns, and build real ideas or theories about life itself according to Hatterr.
Instead of developing thematic patterns based on lessons or instructions, he seems to simply prove other people wrong, and then attribute the drama to "Life!"
It's late in the game, but what say you? Two propositions here - 1, that we come to few great instructions, and 2, that part of this is the result of having unstable and inconsistent relations with other developing, scrutinizing people.
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