![]() Usually, the reader would have to see all the action of the story through this character's eyes. He was interested in establishing a central person about whom the story revolved. James' fiction differs in his treatment of point-of-view. Much of the fiction of the nineteenth century had the author as the storyteller, and the author would create scenes in which certain characters would be involved, but each scene would not necessarily have the same characters in them. For example, previous to James' novel, much of the fiction of the day was being written from the author's viewpoint, that is, the author was telling the story and he was directing the reader's response to the story. By point-of-view is meant the angle from which the story is told. ![]() One of James' contributions to the art of fiction is in his use of point-of-view. ![]()
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