Indirect+Characterization

Indirect Characterization --- [Indirect] media type="custom" key="5700" --- [Characterization] media type="custom" key="5701"

__Definition__: The writer reveals information about a character and his personality through that character's thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him.

__Example__: "//Beneath their wondering exclamation I felt a secret curiousity to know what impressions I had received from my night in the Frome household, and divined that the best way of breaking down their reserve was to let them try to penetrate mine."// [[|Listen to audio]]

//Definition source:// [|Fiction Factor - Direct vs. Indirect Characterization] //Example source:// Wharton, Edith. __Ethan Frome__. New York: New American Library, 2000.