Posted by Jon on October 11, 2007 at 13:34:41 from 199.159.117.116 user Jon.
In Reply to: Third person posted by John Nichols on October 11, 2007 at 13:25:35:
I'll suggest that it's because he found it easier to present the various characters' thoughts and motivations by using the third person than if he had to go hopping from mind to mind in the first person.