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⌈ Secret Post #2483 ⌋

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Examples of characterization through narration

[(Anonymous)]

I'm trying to write this tl;dr journal entry about 1st person narrator characters whose personality is illustrated by the way they narrate the story, rather than just by their actions/dialogue within the story. But I need more examples of more characters. I know there's quite a few I could probably write about, but I don't want to miss discussing a really good example. Can people suggest some examples to me?

Re: Examples of characterization through narration

[dreemyweird]

Kambili Achike from Purple Hibiscus? Bashmachkin from The Overcoat?

Re: Examples of characterization through narration

[(Anonymous)]

Mattie Ross from True Grit. It comes out best in the novel, but you can see it in the Coen Brothers movie too. And it is just so, so good - you can see her personality so clearly. It's evocative of her persona, and also her times and her outlook on life and even the society she's living in. And it's so funny.

That book was so good.

Re: Examples of characterization through narration

[(Anonymous)]

Doctor Watson from Sherlock Holmes (more frequent use of active voice when describing Holmes's actions vs more frequent passive voice when describing other characters' actions, avoids explaining or pointing out the importance and positive effect of any action he takes vs the positive effect of any action Holmes takes)

-Huckleberry Finn (perspective shows rather uneven education, often cannot quite understand the implications or subtext of situations that the reader would pick up on, preoccupied/distracted by personal/human elements of events)

-Pi Patel from Life of Pi (throughout the first two sections he's clearly always describing his life in a context that does not become quite clear to the reader until the third section of the book, which is a vertabim recorded transcript rather than narration that he has control over).


This is assuming more subtle examples than the blatantly-unreliable narrators of stuff like the protagonists of many Poe stories, Humbert Humbert from Lolita, etc.

Re: Examples of characterization through narration

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it's not The Overcoat, but --
I nominate Bridget Jones's Diary. Every line is oozing with her personality.