Story model 1 told through diolog, monolog, impersonal.

FIRST METHOD—TOLD BY SEVERAL PERSONS

Suppose that several people are sitting about a fireplace in the evening, talking over the happen¬ings of an ordinary day. One says :

"When I opened the door for the postman this morn¬ing, I happened to glance across the way and saw our neighbor, Mr. Smith, drive out with his new span of horses. He told me last week that he intended to take a day's rest from his business as soon as his new horses arrived." Another says: "I noticed him waiting in his carriage in front of Mr. Jones's at half-past eleven, when I was going over to Mary's. Mary said that he and Mr. Jones often drive to the Country Club for dinner on Saturdays." A third adds : "As I turned into Twenty-second Street on my way home, he and Mr. Jones were standing on the corner, looking wistfully after his horses fast disappearing down the avenue and dashing his handsome carriage against every lamp-post they passed." Have we not here an outline story of Mr. Smith's adventures of a day ? Is not this given in the form of three situations? .Examine each of the above speeches for the four w's. Prove that these situ¬ations have not all the details found in Situation. typeI.

SECOND METHOD—monolog,TOLD BY ONE PERSON

The above story is told by three different speak¬ers, but it might have been given in three situations by one person. Let us see :

"When I was starting for the office this morning, I saw our friend Smith drive out of his barn with a new span of horses. It was evident from his air of com¬posure and relaxation that he intended to have a holi¬day. "Just before lunch I went out to the Country Club to see about the shrubbery along the river. As I turned out of the gate on my way back, I saw him again. He had brought Jones out to dinner. "I met him for the third time about an hour ago when I was taking the car home. He and Jones stood on the corner of Twenty-second Street. His carriage lay in a heap of ruins on the opposite corner, and his horses were rapidly disappearing down the avenue."

This, too, is an example of narration by means of a series of situations.

THIRD METHOD — IMPERSONAL

When three people told the story we had an example of narrative in dialogue; that is, a story told by conversation. When one person told the story we had narra¬tive in monologue; that is, told by one person. There is still another way in which a story may be related in three or more situations ; namely, in author's narrative. This third method gives the story in an entirely impersonal way, and is the method in The Lights of London Town.