Protagonist of Thorpe’s unpublished story

And the more nervous you got, the more you laughed . . . right up to the point where the hero goes home from the party given in his honor and kills his wife and baby daughter.” “What’s the plot?” the agent asked. “No,” the editor said, “that doesn’t matter.

The unnamed young protagonist of the story Wilson summarizes, who kills his wife and infant daughter. He is a character within Reg Thorpe’s unpublished fiction, distinct from Reg himself.