The Good Soldier (1915)

John Dowell returns to the same relationships from different angles, revising the order and force of what he tells you. Pay attention to changes in emphasis as well as to factual disclosures: his wish to understand the Ashburnhams is entangled with his wish to present himself. The broken chronology gives you evidence to compare without providing a comfortable position outside the damage. Its subject is the telling of betrayal as much as betrayal itself.