One traditional complaint about possible world theory is that it implies that writers do not create fictional characters so much as discover the possible worlds in which they exist. The distinction between the ontologically incomplete fictional text and the many possible worlds to which it may refer, however, seems to alleviate this problem somewhat, since it suggests that a fictional text is not so much a possible world in and of itself, but rather a means by which various possible worlds are recognized and brought into relationship with each other.