Talk:Third-person limited narrative

The Dead
The Dead is not in third limited. When the story opens, Gabriel is not even there yet. And there are numerous times when we are privy to things that he is not.

Young Goodman Brown
This is a pretty odd pick for third limited, especially since the final bit of the article is about how third limited is a 20th century thing. Either way, YGB is a terrible example of third limited. While the POV may not go into other character's thoughts, there is clearly an outside storyteller voice looking down on the events. Lines like this: "In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown." Examples for third person limited should be much more twentieth century. Herzog comes to mind, for just one of many examples. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.116.69.93 (talk) 18:24, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Old Man and the Sea
Old Man and the Sea is not third-person limited. It's actually third-person omniscient. If you look through the first few pages you see how the narrator jumps into the thoughts of several different characters within the same scene. If it were third-person limited, these would have to be separated by a page break.

For Whom the Bell Tolls, also by Hemingway, is a classic example of third-person limited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.194.69.47 (talk) 14:34, 25 January 2012 (UTC)