Style
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
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David Copperfield: Style 1 key example

Key Examples in David Copperfield

Chapter 43: Another Retrospect
Explanation and Analysis:

The novel's style is self-conscious: the narrator is always reminding the reader that he is telling the story of his own life, and that his perspective has shifted as he has gotten older and looked back on events. For instance, in Chapter 43, he describes becoming an author:

I have come out in another way. I have taken with fear and trembling to authorship. I wrote a little something, in secret, and sent it to a magazine, and it was published in the magazine. Since then, I have taken heart to write a good many trifling pieces. Now, I am regularly paid for them.