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Is the book 'Aspects of the Novel' worth a read? Is it in the public domain?
About flat characters - I think the greatest characters are the flat ones - Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Batman. When a character is rich and interesting in his current state, making him develope to something else in the story will just make him a bit meh. For example I think the Dexter character in the TV-series got kind of ruined by having to constantly "evolve" - all the while he is still locked within the basic concept of the series. So we have this character who constantly has his word view shattered, this constant illusion of change and development - but it's still a TV-series, so nothing really change.
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