John Woolman Complicity Quotations Literary complicity exists when an author demands that the reader take an active role in interpreting a text. Frequently the author sets forth various positions or explanations and asks the reader to decide between them. Identity has been a more obsessive concern in American literature than in English literature. In American Society, one creates oneself.
English society is as often the accomplice as it is the enemy of crime.
In Wieland you see each character choose his or her identity.