Novelists like Henry James, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, and Elizabeth Bowen have made the English novel extremely psychological in nature.
They felt that the sense of life is often best rendered by an abrupt passing from one series of events, one group of characters, one centre of consciousness to another. They revealed that human consciousness has very deep layers and, buried, under the conscious, are the subconscious and the unconscious.
Plot, action, character and thought are drowned in the stream of consciousness. Only consciousness remains – bottomless and endless. The thoughts, whether stream of consciousness or internal monologue, must speak for themselves without his or her intervening as narrator.