Limited-Omniscient Narrator

Definition:

Example:

Purpose:

* The effect of a limited-omniscient narrator is to give the reader a great intimacy with and knowledge of a single character--generally the main character.
* Limiting the reader's access to only this character's internal monologue, however, forces to reader to experience the events of the work more like the main character does. It forces the reader to do more thinking and draw more inferences independently.

Consider:

* Sometimes a limited-omniscient narrator will alternate its focus between characters, concentrating on a different character with each chapter, perhaps, for example.
* Consider why the writer chose this kind of narrator, as well as how a different kind of narration would have changed the story.