The text I'm going to analyze is an extract from  Nice Work  by D. Lodge . 

In the First phrase the narrator wants to introduce a new character after he had spoken about a male carachter Vic Wilcox trough a flashback.In the second phrase the narrator says that the character that he wants to tell doesn't belive in the idea of character.he creates expectations in the reader: the woman seems to be unconventional and  the reader is guided and affected by the narrator.

In the extract there is a third person, omniscient, intrusive narrator, as the reader can understand by some expressions like: "let us leave...while we travel.., to meet".

In the third phrase there is the introduction of the new character: Robyn Penrose. Her name recalls a male name: Robyn Hood, her surname means :" penna rosa" . her characterization refers to her gender, her conception of the novel, her favourite phrase, her job, her convictions about capitalism and about the concept of identity. She is Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge, as it is written immediately after her name; it means that her work is important in her characterization and the reader come to know she is young. The name of the university is a fictional name, it doesn't exist in reality.

Other Informartion about the character is given by her thought: Robyn considers the character as a "bourgeois myth ", created only to support and reinforce the ideology of capitalism. The ideology of capitalism consists in producing to gain and in investing again the profit to gain more than before.

the rise of the novel in the eighteen century coincides with the rise of capitalism, as a matter of fact the novel is the literary genre par excellence. The novel and capitalism proceed together.

the narrator explains why the classic novel should have collaborated with the spirit of capitalism:

As a matter of fact capitalists and novelists are similar in two aspects: first of all they are suitable to show the Protestant ethic (based on the idea of progress), secondly both capitalism and novel believe in character, in the single defined individual.

The specification given by the narrator where he adds that the previous sentence was "perfectly obvious" to Robyn as the function of showing the reader a further aspect of her thought.