The Beast in the Jungle | Style

Point of View
Third-person narration, which consistently represents John Marcher’s point of view, dominates James’s story. The reader is privy to Marcher’s thoughts, but the narrating voice declines to comment on these thoughts. In this respect, James is known as an innovator. In comparison with the third-person omniscience of the great nineteenthcentury realists (for example, George Eliot), whose narration not only conveyed characters’ thoughts and actions but also commentary and judgment regarding those thoughts and actions, James’s thirdperson narration limits...

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