It becomes smaller, moving from a wide view of the landscape to the experience of the character.
d
the psychic distance, or narrative distance, in this sentence is very remote, objective, and distant, since the narrator is just providing us with factual and contextual information: we only know that sometime in the past, probably a long time ago, there existed a miller who was humble. There is neither emotion nor intimacy here, just observation, since we have not (yet) been invited to get closer to the character, we have not (yet) been taken inside his or her mind.
Information gathered through the five senses
The benefit associated with acquiring one additional item
A brief pause in the dialogue
To save for large purchases in the future
A point in the story that shows something that happened earlier.
A will.
Creative writing based on real life
The benefit associated with acquiring one additional item
A narrative that moves back and forth in time. (Apex)
Figurative language that shows things as having the same meaning