On heroism versus evil
Charles Dickens began one of his novels with a narrator speculating whether he would be a hero or a villain.
It is a question many have to ask themselves: whether they have done more good or harm in life.
I suppose it is a question no person can answer by themselves. It may be one reason Henry James did not like long novels in the first-person. They are too one-sided. Can you say yourself whether you are moral or not?