Shifting focalization across protagonists deliberately produces uneven perspective

Evidence

Heads disappear sometimes, and the cast act with their feet. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 385 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Partial perspectives each capture truth and yet miss the whole — , A Year of World Stories, 2242; Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously — , A Year of World Stories, 4077; Imagining the absent is the defining human capacity behind story — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition: A Guide…, 24 (+6 more)

Broader Connections