I'm going to analyze the extract taken from "Nice Work" ,written by David Lodge.

The narrator is communicating his intentions, after he had already spoken of the male character Vic Wilcox: he is going to introduce a new character.

The first piece of information is about the gender ("doesn't herself believe in.."). Thanks to the personal pronoun "her" the reader understands that the character is a woman.

Before telling her name the narrator wants to inform the reader about a piece of information that he judges more important: she doesn't believe in the concept of character.

Going on reading, the reader comes to know her name: Robyn Penrose. The name seems to be a male name because it recalls Robyn Hood, who was a hero in Medieval history (He couldn't change the society despise his good intentions).

After that the reader can understands other piece of information about Robyn, which is about her job: she is Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge. This information is immediately written after her name, so the intelligent reader understands that her job is important. The name of the University is a fictional name; it doesn't exist in reality.

Another information about the character is given by her thought: Robyn considers the character as a "burgeois myth", an illusion created to reinforce and support the ideology of capitalism, which consists in producing to gain and investing the profit to gain more before. She affirms this because the rise of novel in the 18^th century coincides with the rise of capitalism, as the matter of fact the novel is the literary genre "par excellence".

The novel and capitalism proceed together and both were the result of protestant ethic. Moreover they are two forms of investment: in the same way capitalism invests money on producing, novelist invests his skills on novel.

In the text there are some phrases enclosed in parenthesis which makes specifications and clarifications. But the intelligent reader understands that this is an intrusion of the narrator which influence the reader's point of view.

It is clear that Robyn embrace the ideology of Postmodernism.

She doesn't believe  in the concept of the character because the character is an illusion. Before Postmodernism people believed that they could define precisely a person, but during Postmodernism this idea change. It is difficult to say where start and finish our identity because it's continually in movement; it changes according the different situations, so the character is a fluid essence and has multifaceted identity.

The narrator intervenes to say that Robyn's thought is the result of what she had read. This is a Postmodernism concept because during Postmodernism there is a rejection of the distortion between "high" and "low" culture. Moreover the character is the language the he spoken.