Mental Recollection In Ford's The Sense Of An Ending

From these clues we can assume that despite the story being portrayed as a detailed account of events from a direct witness, there is a sense of inaccuracy and biasedness. Although Ford Maddox Ford does not strictly use the stream of consciousness technique, he does create a narrating method based entirely on mental recollections of the events and displays the mind wandering. The account is given as a chronical reflection made up of a collection of flashbacks in non-chronological order reflecting the mental process and ‘wandering’ in the mind of the narrator. The idea that the recollections are flashbacks also effects the authenticity of these accounts, as like the narrator in the novel The Sense of an Ending both narrators’ accounts have likely been skewed by time. ‘I remember in no particular order’ (p.

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He says several times that he has come to the end of his story. On page 174 he begins to wrap up his events ‘Well, that is the end of the story.’P.174 and then on page 176 ‘and that is the end of my story.’ ‘It suddenly occurs to me that I have forgotten to say how Edward met his death.’p.176 He continues to tell us about Edwards’ death, I think such a significant event in the story would not get forgotten but instead I feel it may have been pre-planned to end his narrative with this description, almost like a peak at the end. This goes against the idea that his mind is just naturally wandering through these recollections and that maybe there is some kind of loose structure into the order he was going to tell them. And perhaps which events he was going to reveal and which ones he would rather not. Once again it acts as evidence to the narrator being unreliable and how everything he said might not be true as there may in fact be important details missing or