Compare and contrast close and distant narrative styles, explaining an instance where the use of each would be appropriate and effective. Your answer should be at least 150 words.

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Close and distant narrative styles are all a third-person characterization.

Distant third-person characterization is describing the internal state of the character using the narrator's objective voice. It is keeping the POV character at an increased narrative distance from the reader, with the third-person narrator (the author, or the unnamed godlike narrator) working as the middleman.

Close third-person characterization is portraying the internal state of the character using the character's subjective voice. It is pulling the reader as close to the POV character as possible, in an attempt to eliminate narrative distance, by making the narrative appear to come directly from within the character himself.

In distant narrative style, the narrator and character is distinctive while in close narrative style, the narrator and character melds into one.