: Re: In a "Gatsby" type story, how does a narrator relate what he doesn't get to see? "The Great Gatsby" was told from the point of view of Gatsby's neighbor, Nick Carraway by name, with Nick

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I didn't want to "switch POV throughout the telling," as one commenter suggested.

But I had "Nick Carraway" narrate about the first 83% of the novel. the "public" part that is. I made one switch over to the main character for the later, private part, and then had the first narrator close the loop in the final three paragraphs, explaining why something didn't happen in the novel that the main character couldn't have known about, and giving the reason for that.

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