Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited: Frame Story 1 key example

Key Examples in Brideshead Revisited

Part 1, Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—Charles Remembers:

Brideshead Revisited is a frame story, with its narrator, Charles Ryder, revisiting the events that occurred at the titular estate during his young adulthood in a series of detailed flashbacks. The aged soldier and narrator regularly interjects his perspective into these retellings, providing context and framing for the novel's central plot. Note the following example of this interjection, from the end of Part 1, Chapter 1:

That is the full account of my first brief visit to Brideshead; could I have known then that it would one day be remembered with tears by a middleaged captain of infantry?