CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT In a novel the narrator is the vehicle, the one telling the story to the reader. Laying out critical information, describing the setting, creating mood and atmosphere, and generating information upon which we create our opinions on characters and events in the novel. These are classically what we associate the narrator with regard to the novel and its progression. The characters that the author describes are the major focus of the novel. Characters …showed first 75 words of 1315 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1315 total…grow as people they just continue to function as they always have, staying exactly the same. The narrator, who in most novels would play a small part, is the only character who makes any kind of change. While at first he can tolerate them, toward the end he can no longer stand their behavior. Nick moves back west, leaving behind this unchanging world that he feels he no longer wants to be a part of.