Yes, exactly! She is smug, self-righteous and slightly annoying - much easier to write, I am hoping, than the third-person narration of the opening pages....
I have published four novels and two academic books; forthcoming in 2014 is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
being the soliloquy of the unsympathetic and opaque character?
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly! She is smug, self-righteous and slightly annoying - much easier to write, I am hoping, than the third-person narration of the opening pages....
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