Character dossier

Legrandin

A character of recurrent social and rhetorical diminishment, with especially weak advantage and prestige despite occasional brief reversals.

23 annotation unitsFallen
Legrandin portrait, Tarot
Legrandin: self undermining negative.Tarot

Interpretation

Legrandin is a broadly negative figure whose profile is shaped by repeated discredit and awkward self-positioning, even though a few isolated units briefly interrupt the downward pattern.

Why Legrandin Is Distinctive

  • He is a good example of how rhetorical self-fashioning can fail across more than one lens at once.
  • His profile connects early Combray material to later Guermantes treatment without turning into a single monotone block.

Social Lenses

Archetype

Fallen

Broadly losing across immediate outcome, rank, and belonging.

Advantage

15%

Rank 53/62

Net score
-20.948
Mean
-0.911
Span
+6.018
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Prestige

11%

Rank 55/62

Net score
-17.293
Mean
-0.752
Span
+5.89
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Inclusion

25%

Rank 47/62

Net score
-17.656
Mean
-0.768
Span
+4.221
Dominant dimension
General Appraisal

Scene-level advantage over time

Advantage ELO Across ISLT

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Distinguishing Passages

Reading Path

  1. Strongest later concentration of diminishment
  2. Early formation of the negative pattern
  3. Brief late reversal against the broader trend

Passage Signals