Indeed, in investigating this corporeal atmosphere, we run the risk of sliding away from engagement in concerns specific to narrative and toward very metaphorical claims about the act of reading in general. In chapter 1, I suggested this same danger when I noted that narratives’ creation of possible worlds engaged in concepts of mimesis and projected problems of hermeneutics in general. It should be no surprise that these same hermeneutic issues appear in character theory, since we have seen that they ultimately attempt to describe the very way in which a text becomes meaningful.