The narrator feels 'free to shape out our own idea' and invents a complex character named Wakefield from this one weird news story. Wakefield is a middle-aged man who is pretty unremarkable. His marriage is boring and predictable; he's a bit of a 'sluggish' sort who is sorely lacking in imagination. Wakefield is utterly ordinary to any observers. His wife notes his 'quiet selfishness' and 'peculiar sort of vanity.' He hardly sounds like prince charming.
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