It's a deft, endearing portrayal of what is usually a marginal character.

Here's a book in which even the humblest and most marginal characters are granted an interior monologue.

He picked for his subject marginal characters tied together by love and drugs in an extended traveling family on the road.

For example, Ransom becomes a marginal character, and the action takes place partly in an alternate universe.

In the course of his wanderings Mr. Blechman encounters some extremely marginal characters.

In the first version of 'Underground' he was a marginal character who crawled into the hospital from the sewer.

I would not believe that that depiction is inflammatory by talking about marginal characters.

There's the bathtub suicide scene of a marginal character, viewed from above drowned in a crimson sea.

In her tales, she uses a simple vocabulary to talk about isolated, marginal or sad characters.