Indirect narration
When a narrator shows the readers the events of a story without telling us how to interpret them, we can speak of indirect narration. It is the opposite of direct narration, where the narrator tells the reader how to interpret events. Here is an example of indirect narration from Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemmingway. The woman came out through the curtains with two glasses of beer and put them down on the...
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