The Good Soldier

In my opinion no one in The Good Soldier is actually good. Dowell is easily decieved and never actually see's what people are really like. Edward who in Dowell's opinion is the good soldier is not the good soldier, he is only focused on himself and is constantly cheating on his wife. Florence has decieved her husband for their entire marraige and has not been faithful to him. Leonora who is faithful, is aware of her husbands affairs and only cares about keeping up appearences and controling everything in their lives to the point she begins to go mad. All the characters in Ford's book have very serious character flaws and none of them could be considered good.

James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man is not like any book I have ever read.  It is written as a stream of conciousness which is really hard to read and follow but also makes it very unique.  He writes like this to show that Stephen, the main character, is still growing through out the book. Not only in age but also as an artist.  At the end of the book Joyce does something interesting, he switchs from stream of conciousness to writing as journal if it is a journal entry by Stephen. He does this because he wants to show that Stephen has grown and he is ready to speak for himself.