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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 suc ....

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.... 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 who needs little sleep, one who has the drive to use every waking hour profitably. Another of Willie Stark's primary characteristics is his ability to hold a crowd spellbound, to move them emotionally as he wishes them to be moved. He does just the right things in the drugstore in Mason City in order to make sure that the crowd's allegiance to him is reinforced. When he makes a speech in the Town Square a little later, he makes sure of two things: that he has this crowd spellbound by his oratory and that his sp ....