Goldfinger Final Blog

Ian Fleming's Goldfinger is told from the third person perspective with descriptions and insights of James Bond's thoughts and motivations. To make the experience from the book better and feel more real the reader learns facts in the novel as James Bond learns them himself and the events don't unfold until James has actually experienced them first. These techniques help to build suspense and tension in the story as Bond learns the facts and truth about his adversaries and their plan. To avoid confusion, Fleming is not using the typical type of suspense in novels where the reader is aware of danger and the main character is not, but instead Fleming places James in the center of the book to suprise the reader with plot twists and climaxes. These different combination of techniques make me and other readers feel like we could be in the middle of the action and this makes the novel a much more enjoyable experience overall.