Chapter 1 vs Chapter 3
The two voices established: the panoramic present-tense satire of Chapter 1 against Esther's modest 'I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write...' in Chapter 3.
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From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The novel alternates between an omniscient present-tense narrator surveying society and Esther's retrospective first-person account—an experimental structure unique among Victorian novels.
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