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Explanation:
Well, I'm not sure what you'd expect out of an answer without further context/details, and the fact that this is general knowledge is frustrating, but I'll just use the basics to provide a foundation.
In order to locate the antagonist, look for the story's primary conflict and ask where that conflict originated.
I'll use as example the passage I'm reading, which is <em>The Necklace</em> by Guy de Maupassant (1850-93), a piece of fiction from France in 1884. In summary, the story is about Madame Loisel, a middle-class woman who longs for a wealthy lifestyle in a detrimental way.
Main character analysis: Greedy, self-centered, unresponsive to rare opportunities, takes her close friends and husband for granted/takes advantage of them, puts her economic status first in <em>everything,</em> albeit she has never worked a day in her life and isn't actually impoverished, it's more of a frugal situation
In conclusion, Madame Loisel, the main character, is not an enjoyable character. Further evaluating this, it seems that the antagonist of the story is her mindset.
The antagonist of your whatever text you're analyzing is most likely going to have some kind of negative connotation. To consider the story from the eyes of the antagonist, you must take the beliefs or values about a situation and kind of "flip it". Whatever the main character is fighting, it's obviously not a positive being.
