![]() ![]() Jean Louise was about to make the worst mistake of her life. She could not comprehend the attitudes of young people these days. 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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