ENGC70H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Call It Sleep, Free Indirect Speech, Irony
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Mirco-composition: there is a secret to david"s identity that has to do with adultery in the old world. The whole novel is in third-person narration, but not omniscient; it"s third-person focalized (through. We only get david"s perspective and experiences - at one point it shifts into david"s thoughts as free indirect discourse and then stream of consciousness. Third person past tense vs. first person present tense. He never wanted to see her again (p. 64) is transformed from david"s thoughts of i never want to see her again . There can also be highly poeticized third person focalized - shows that david feels deeply and extremely. If we were stuck with only david"s first person narration, the story would be very different and difficult to read; we need this heightened view. Raw, unprocessed experience - but david is not telling the story (unlike jim in my antonia); we have an invisible narrator that follows david"s thoughts.
