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The role of omniscient narrator in Henry James


Henry James allows a story to unfold from the interior monologue of an omniscient narrator. Not understanding that omniscient narrator, who is oftentimes an unseen actor in the story, is to oftentimes miss a subtlety of a Jamesian novella.

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I still think they did an alright job. A narrator can be one of those 50/50 things in cinema.

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