character’s thoughts are presented in the confusing, jumbled, and inconsequential manner of real life without any clarification by the author. The aim of the technique is to provide a textual equivalent to the stream of a fictional character’s consciousness. It creates the impression that the reader is eavesdropping on the flow of conscious experience in the character’s mind, gaining intimate access to their private “thoughts”. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are masters of this literary technique.