Confidant

How it is used

Use in character analysis to explain how private information becomes available through conversation.

Example sentences

1. The servant acts as a confidant when the princess reveals her plan to escape.

   Their conversation lets the audience learn a concealed intention.

2. After losing his confidant, the narrator begins addressing his diary instead.

   The lost listener changes the way private thoughts are expressed.

Common collocations

• act as a confidant
• a trusted confidant

Related terms

• characterA person, or sometimes an animal or creature, who takes part in the events of a story, play or poem.
• dialogueThe words that characters speak to each other in a story, play or film; in prose it is usually shown in quotation marks.

More terms: Character and Characterization

• protagonist
• antagonist
• characterization
• round character
• flat character
• dynamic character
• antihero
• foil
• tragic flaw
• composite character
• stock character
• static character