Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

3. Psychological portrayal and analysis of motive. 
The penetration into the mind of the character, description of his mental 
processes and subtle psychological changes that motivate his actions, the penetration 
into his thoughts – all that is an effective means of characterization that writers very 
often resort to. Priestley’s 
Angel Pavement 
abounds in illustrations of psychological 
portrayal. For example, the description of Miss Matfield’s state of mind when she 
realized at the station that she had been waiting for Golspie in vain, standing there 
with a suitcase and a cheap imitation of a wedding ring in her bag, while Golspie was 
miles away from London “not caring if 
she 
spent the rest of her life in Victoria Station. 
Never before had she felt such bitter contempt for herself. She could have cried and 
cried, not because he had gone and she would probably never set eyes on him again, 
but because his sudden indifference, at this time of all times, left her feeling pitiably 
small and silly. The misery of it was like the onslaught of some unexpected, terrible 
disease. Her mangled pride bled and ached inside her, so that she felt faint”. This 
description of her psychological state and thoughts not only reveals the shame and 
humiliation that she experienced, it also characterizes Matfield as a sensitive creature, 
capable of experiencing profound and acute feelings. 
The psychological state of a character is generally revealed by means of inner 
represented speech in the form of either free indirect speech or free direct speech. In 
the following example J.Priestley resorts to free indirect speech to reveal Turgis’s state 
when he was dismissed: “His job was gone. What could he do? A bit of typing and 
clerking, that was all, and anybody could do that; even girls would do it, ... just as well 
as he would ... Something had gone wrong. Where, how had it gone wrong? He could 

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be as anybody, if only he had a chance to be; and why hadn't he a chance to be?”. His 
thoughts reveal his despair, his awareness of the injustices that were done to him. It 
also reveals his ability to think clearly and to realize how unfair life was to him.