BEER Group Read. Free indirect discourse, speaking of

[Bekah]

Free indirect discourse is a kind of third-person narration which reports on the conscious thoughts of a characters. 

First sentences of BE:     

It's the first day of spring 2001, and Maxine Tarnow, though some still have her in their system as Loeffler, is walking her boys to school. Maybe they're past the age where they need an escort, maybe Maxine doesn't want to let go just yet. It's only a couple blocks, it's on her way to work, she enjoys it, so?

See how the narrator is reporting from inside Maxine's head -  she's a bit defensive in her thoughts -    "It's only a couple blocks, it's on her way to work,  she enjoys it,  so?"   But her thoughts are not marked as such - but they're reported as though they were by the narrator.     That's "free indirect discourse."  

Bekah

On Oct 13, 2013, at 5:55 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you please give some examples of that 'free indirect discourse'?
> (I'm only about 120 pages into the book, because I've many things on
> my plate right now, and I'm enjoying every bit of it (despite those
> negative comments Keith mentions).)
> 
> 2013/10/13 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>> I got a copy of the audio of BLEEDING EDGE. Narrated by Jeannie
>> Berlin, nasally, the Jeannie Berlin who is in the movie of Inherent Vice.
>> 
>> She is not Maxine's voice to me--my (stereo)type is higher and sweeter in women--- but this
>> falls right into P's presentation of ways of perception here. See Vyrva upcoming.
>> Berlin's will become Maxine's, I guess, as I listen. P musta approved.
>> 
>> But also, since I think of Pynchon as 'the narrator's voice', I read much of the 'free indirect discourse'
>> as a male's.....!?
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