Literary Fiction and Empathy

From what the article said and based on my own experience popular fiction tends to focus on the plot whereas literary fiction chooses to focus more on the characters and their development. Since the authors of literary fiction focus on characters, it helps the reader understand others better. Hamlet is a good example of this. It is filled with many soliloquys and based on the first one we read, the readers sees what Hamlet is feeling; his anger and depression towards his father's death and his mother's reaction to it. Literary fiction, in general, is more open to interpretation and therefore each reader can get a different experience from it.