In fiction, as in life, all is revealed through the actions
of our characters.
Characters, like people, don’t always tell the truth. They
often say what they think is true, or
what they’d like to be true, without arriving
at a clear expression of their most salient psychological reality.
Usually it’s because they hold multiple truths – layers of
thoughts, feelings and motives - which are tangled together in complicated ways. They may not always be aware of them. Or they
may be hiding them, from other people or themselves.