![]() ![]() One advantage of omniscient viewpoint is the story doesn’t have to be told in chronological order. Omniscient is contrasted to first person where we only see and hear things from the main character’s viewpoint or third person where we can be in different people’s minds at different times during the course of the novel. “The christening party took a turn when Albert Cousins arrived with a bottle of gin.” That’s the narrator talking, not one of the characters. That means from the very first sentence there’s an always present story narrator telling us what people are doing and thinking. ![]() Unlike many contemporary novels, Commonwealth is written from an omniscient viewpoint. ![]() This review of Ann Patchett’s 2016 novel, Commonwealth, focuses primarily on the writing, but in doing so perhaps readers will come to understand some basic writing techniques and how they influence story. Commonwealth: A Review for Writers as well as Readers ![]()
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