: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebBoth are composed of autobiographical observations presented as if in transcription of an interior monologue. David L. Ulin, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 In pages-long, often dialogue-heavy sections without paragraph breaks, quotation marks or full stops, Petterson shares his character’s interior monologue. Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022 There’s no interior monologue in the film, so that struggle isn’t quite so legible in the movie. Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022 Rodgers’s performance deepens the unsettling mood of Feito’s interior monologue, about a New York mom haunted by the success of her husband’s latest mystery novel. Marshall Heyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021 Liza’s inner story, which is also dramatized and also features her narration (her interior monologue), is far more troubled. Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021 His thoughts are never directly communicated, whether by contrived narration or interior monologue. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 June 2021 Ford has a gift for nimble interior monologues and a superb ear for the varieties and vagaries of human speech. Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times, 12 May 2020 Intriguingly, the two novels mirror each other in their structure, both being divided into four interior monologues. Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020 See More