The Birds: Style 1 key example

Key Examples in The Birds

Style
Explanation and Analysis:

"The Birds" is written in third-person limited, closely following Nat's perspective. Du Maurier uses detailed, vivid imagery to describe the landscape and the birds in particular. Her descriptions are often poetic and repetitive:

The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them, and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill themselves of motion before winter came.