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John Fowles’s novels, considered to be postmodern fiction, highlight self-reflection and conscious reality through character-driven stories that reveal the main characters’ psychologies through as well as external descriptions. The male characters in three novels, Frederick Clegg in The Collector, Nicholas Urfe in The Magus and Charles Smithson in The French Lieutenant’s Woman, are all orphans and collectors of butterflies, women, and fossils, respectively. They have personality disorders and lack spiritual maturity. Each meets a fascinating, mysterious, and artistic woman who tries to use art to educate them to become self-aware. All three meet twisted fates. At the end of The Collector, uneducated Clegg, who never understood reality, retrogresses as he plans to abduct a second woman after his first victim passes away. In The Magus, Nicholas comes to recognize himself and see reality through “the godgame”, but he ends up hurting his love again. Finally, Charles is awoken to his reality through his relationship with Sarah, who was not actually the titular “French Lieutenant’s woman.” This allows him to break away from his classism, although he ends up alone. In conclusion, Fowles presents not only situations of love between men and women but also interpersonal relationships and intrapersonal dialogues. Through his books, Fowles shows how his three male characters evolve or devolve. As a writer, Fowles wants both himself and his readers to be self-aware like Charles.