Outside reading Characters(post one)

David Webb is a college professor at a small college in Maine. Jason Bourne is an infamous assassin. They are the same person.
David Webb exhibits the classic characteristics of a thriller protagonist. He shows traits such as affection, courage, and shrewdness regularly and becomes the character that everyone wants him to be. He does everything he can to protect his wife and even something as small as when a man from the government shows up he rushes home preparing to take on whatever the world has coming to him. He is always thinking about the welfare of his wife and loves her enough to do anything for her. He also shows his courage in this instance because he does not even think about what he is getting into when he bursts the door open but has prepared himself to take on the worst. Although this may seem rash and rather stupid David also tends to be very clever. When he meets this man he analyzes the best way to get what he wants out of him and uses every trait of the man to do this.
Bourne seems to be a different man altogether. When David Webb switches to Jason Bourne we see drastic differences in personality and mindset. Rather than the loving affection of Webb, Bourne has more of an animal desire towards the same woman. Although he still loves her very much he talks about her like an object wishing to be recovered, not a woman that may be able to help herself. Webb's courage is replaced in Bourne by something not short of fearlessness. He is able to complete any task including things such as diving on a man to save him from a bullet and blowing up an arms warehouse without so much as a backwards thought. He does not have to overcome his fears because there are none. Jason also seems much more capable at making decisions than David. He does not think but is able to pick out a course of action and act on it quickly in contrast to Davids slightly more calculated decisions. Although David and Jason are the same person, from here on I, like Robert Ludlum, will refer to them as separate characters. They are two totally different personalities inside the same body and only one of the two will ever be able to act at one time.
Ludlums use of Jason and David creates a feel for the book that the reader would not get if they were referred to as one character. Depending on which name is used a different image is painted in the readers mind. We get a fast paced, almost blurred picture of events from Jason while David shows us things in more detail with a slower but more discerning eye. Each event is only told once, through the eyes of one character, but when reading the opposite character, the reader remembers the events past from a different point. This style shapes The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum in a way unique to this book.