Golding Uses the Flashbacktechnique Of Pincher Martin Moreextensively In His Next Novel, Freefall (1959). Unlike His First Three Novels, Free Fall Is Told With a First Person Narrator, an Artistnamed Samuel Mountjoy. the Novel Takes As a Model Dante's La Vita Nuova, a Collection of Lovepoems Interspersed With Dante's Own Commentary on the Poems. Golding Uses Thecharacter Mountjoy to Comment on the Conflict Between Rationalism and Faith.