Sarah Holt, Post 3

The “fictional” characters in Primary Colors should all be upset of how they were portrayed. No matter how alike or different the characters were to the correct personnel, all “facts” portrayed were not necessarily true. The plot of the book had to be enhanced by Joe Klein; therefore all of the details in the novel could not have been true. Klein must have changed what some of the characters would have said; he put words into their mouths.

Betsey Wright (possibly characterized as Libby Holden) should be upset of how she was represented. While I read the “Afterword” by Klein, he stated that he “completely forgot there was a real-life inspiration”. This means that while Klein was writing, he was not thinking about how Wright was Holden in the novel. She was his favorite character to write and he got carried away in some instances. Klein described Holden as insane. In the last chapter, Holden was found dead. Considering the fact that Holden is still alive I concluded that she did not, in fact, commit suicide.