Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0906 short lesson, about 20 seconds
First-Person Minor-Character Narrator
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The idea
The glossary describes this narrator as typically a gossip, observing another person's actions and reporting what that friend did, when, and to whom. The characterisation as gossip is the anchor's own colouring; the structural point is that the teller is present but not central.
In practice
Present, but not the subject.
Where people slip
Gossip is the anchor's word, not a rule.
Your place on the trail
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