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It must be remembered that the hero undergoes his ordeals in order to be able to return to the humdrum at home. This seems contradictory, but is in agreement with the hero's function as instrument for recreating a situation of status quo. Empathy It is quite obvious that the contrast between familiarity and unfamiliarity, home and abroad, is an efficient means of attracting and keeping the reader's interest. Empathy is of particular importance in formula fiction because the characteristic of predictability necessitates a willing acceptance of the hero's lack of formula knowledge.
There is a complete change of key when the hero arrives in the alien land of his adversary. The general numbness of betweenassignments existence is converted into a condition of sensual acuteness. But only seldom are the heroes of Fleming, le Carre and Deighton sent into well-defined enemy territory, as it happens in SWCIFC, LGW and BDB. As a rule, the alien land is either a neutral or even a friendly nation, but the neutrality or friendliness is cover~d by a film of distortion. 4 In most cases Bond has to leave England to carry out his orders, but the few times he remains there, the usually idyllic and wellknown qualities of the south of England are transformed into their oppositions.
And in the perspective of characterization it confirms the reader's impression of Smiley as intellect and Guillam as the man of action. But primarily the passage makes sense as the contrast to the indifference to food shown by pre-assignment Smiley. Although le Carre's LDG lacks the pivotal role of the British secret service to focus instead on the Israel - PLO conflict in an Israeli perspective, the dichotomy structure is also in this story of fundamental significance for the overall pattern. When Charlie, the decoy heroine, reflects that 'Coming home is like going abroad' (246), there is more to it than just the emotional hangover resulting from a prolonged stay away from England.