Part one of term paper
Willie Stark is the most powerful, the most dominating character in the novel, and it seems to be, primarily, his story that Jack Burden tells. Willie's character goes through many changes, his beliefs change etc., as his political career progresses. Willie's success and ultimate loss of power can be viewed as the fate of all politicians. Al ...

Part two of term paper
... exhibits is his enormous energy. Indeed, the man seems hardly to need to sleep; for example, when they return to his father's place after visiting Judge Irwin, Willie Stark goes for a walk in order to think things through rather than go to bed, even though it is three o'clock in the morning. Later in the novel, he spends hours working on plans for the hospital that he has sworn to people that he would build. Furthermore, all of the evidence points toward the idea that he has always been a person w ...