Point of view shifts within a single sentence! But of course the masters break the elementary POV rule all the time (In AK Tolstoy does something similar on a duck hunt among several nobles, even spending time in a dog's mind.):
"What damned rot they talk, thought Charles Tansley, laying down his spoon precisely in the middle of his plate…
Point of view shifts within a single sentence! But of course the masters break the elementary POV rule all the time (In AK Tolstoy does something similar on a duck hunt among several nobles, even spending time in a dog's mind.):
"What damned rot they talk, thought Charles Tansley, laying down his spoon precisely in the middle of his plate, which he had swept clean, as if, Lily thought (he sat opposite to her with his back to the window precisely in the middle of view), he were determined to make sure of his meals."
Pretty much sums up the chapter's dozen or so divergent viewpoints and all the mendacity.
Point of view shifts within a single sentence! But of course the masters break the elementary POV rule all the time (In AK Tolstoy does something similar on a duck hunt among several nobles, even spending time in a dog's mind.):
"What damned rot they talk, thought Charles Tansley, laying down his spoon precisely in the middle of his plate, which he had swept clean, as if, Lily thought (he sat opposite to her with his back to the window precisely in the middle of view), he were determined to make sure of his meals."
Pretty much sums up the chapter's dozen or so divergent viewpoints and all the mendacity.