Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How free indirect style sits between narrator and character
The sentence keeps the narrator's grammar and wears the character's mind.
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From the opening
Free indirect style sits between narrator and character by giving a third-person sentence the words, judgments, or rhythms of a character without marking them as quotation or as tagged thought. The grammar stays with the narration, and the coloring comes from the person whose mind is being tracked. The opening covers whose words color the narration, why the tag is missing on purpose, and how irony shares one clause.
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Inside
- Whose words color the narration
- Why the tag is missing on purpose
- How irony shares one clause
- Where a sentence's owner blurs
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Free indirect style in third-person narration
- Austen and Flaubert as standing examples of the blend