Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0908 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Limited Omniscient Narrator
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The idea
The glossary defines this as a narrator who limits himself or herself to relaying the thoughts and actions of the main character only. Not a character in the story, but confined to one mind inside it. This is the commonest mode in modern fiction.
In practice
Outside the story, inside one mind.
Where people slip
The commonest mode on the paper.
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