styron structure

You can double-click the image to see it better. This is an analysis of a section of Sophie's Choice. If you haven't read any Styron, start there. Anywhere. They're all good.

Note under the title how he refers to "Transcendent Present, Narrative Present, Major Flashback, and Embedded Flashback. Will someone please tell me how people can think like that? I know nothing of writing structures but he must purposefully write like this. How he can then hang such delicious stories on this intricate frame is beyond me...

The movie was also very good, Styron even thought so too. Read first.