interior monologue
noun
: a usually extended representation in monologue of a fictional character's thought and feeling
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As in Bennett’s other works, vagueness manifests in the book’s sentences, which have a habit of interrupting themselves, thoughts popping in and out with the regularity of a real-life interior monologue.
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Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
The television version faces the formidable challenge of how to represent Murderbot’s darkly comic interior monologue in a third-person format, and its success is in large part a function of Skarsgård’s face, which can pull off a range of sardonic micro-expressions.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Without the interior monologues that soften readers’ impressions of the characters in Hilderbrand’s book, each of the members of the Winbury family comes across as an unrepentant narcissist who seems potentially capable of resorting to nasty behavior.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2024
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Rhian Sasseen, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
But where the book had the benefit of MacDonald’s beautiful and searching interior monologue, the movie chooses to articulate her pain — as well as her refusal to process it — from the outside in.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
The television version faces the formidable challenge of how to represent Murderbot’s darkly comic interior monologue in a third-person format, and its success is in large part a function of Skarsgård’s face, which can pull off a range of sardonic micro-expressions.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
Without the interior monologues that soften readers’ impressions of the characters in Hilderbrand’s book, each of the members of the Winbury family comes across as an unrepentant narcissist who seems potentially capable of resorting to nasty behavior.
—Jen Chaney, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2024
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“Interior monologue.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interior%20monologue. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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