Ok, here's my take on Taylor Beckett.
In paragraph 3 of Chapter Two, the first thing we are told about Taylor is that she is ethical. It remains for the reader to discover just how much that schemata directs her throughout the novel, however; I’m not spilling the beans (no spoiler here!)
Paragraph 5 gives us our first foreshadow of the novel: we catch the allusion that in her past, she’s been in the news. And we can safely infer it was not something she enjoyed nor endured willingly.
The rest of the chapter sketches a news-professional who’s no novice but is perhaps in a quasi-catatonic career-rut. She has a potty-mouth and an impetuous personality---but she has a colleague who can roll with her punches, and who just revealed himself as an advocate and a mentor. . . and maybe more later.
Well said! Love it!
-- we catch the allusion that in her past, she’s been in the news...not something she enjoyed nor endured willingly.
I especially love this (Charles! Charles!):
-- she has a colleague who can roll with her punches, and who just revealed himself as an advocate and a mentor. . . and maybe more....