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The narrator can describe only beauty, but that doesn't mean you can't have a mean and petty character that (in dialogue or perhaps thought) describes people in ugly terms. This doesn't have to be...
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2019-12-19T22:13:41Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T11:06:26Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42868 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
The narrator can describe only beauty, but that doesn't mean you can't have a mean and petty character that (in dialogue or perhaps thought) describes people in ugly terms. This doesn't have to be a main character, it could be a servant of an MC, that the MC overhears talking about such things, and then decides to reprimand the insulting character, or perhaps does not and just thinks that is the crass way that servants behave, and reprimands do nothing but cause resentment among them, so she lets it go. Her _conscious_ thought can be just what you said, that it is incredibly rude to mention such unfortunate disability or scarring, and she doesn't understand how the commoners _live_ beside each other, or can (gasp) _laugh_ at such misfortune. But the fact that the crass characters express disgust with the pockmarked face, or the drooping face of a stroke victim, etc, or the blinded eye and scars of a war hero, is enough to tell the reader the narrator is, like the royals, presenting a one-sided view of people.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-03-02T19:24:11Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 5