But then, in an inexplicable creative leap that. Harper Lee herself seems to know this, describing it as a pretty decent effort. You might call it free indirect discourse, but you can also call it confusing. Read More : Read Now Go Set a Watchman Description From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman has a certain promise, but not much more. Why simply tell us what Alexandra is thinking when Alexandra often says it out loud, or shows it in her behavior? Seriously.we're asking? Jean Louise was about to make the worst mistake of her life. Carter and sued in 2013 by Harper Lee, who accused him of duping her into. She could not comprehend the attitudes of young people these days. Lee's novel 'Go Set a Watchman' was initially said to have been found in August. It's jarring, but not as jarring as sometimes slipping into the consciousness of another character, which happens with Aunt Alexandra in Chapter 3: Two solid hours and I didn't know where I was. 'She' is the woman formerly known as Scout-now Jean Louise-and most of the book is told from the outside looking in.Įxcept, as the book goes on, we end up more and more inside Jean Louise's head, sometimes in the same paragraph as a third-person statement:

'She had looked out the dining-car window…' (1.1). Maybe it's because Go Set a Watchman is an unedited first draft of a first novel, but the narrative voice is inconsistent at best-and sometimes super-duper confusing.Īs soon as the train leaves the station, you see something is different in the first paragraph.

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