The author makes fun of the novel by giving us the details of his very conception made by his father Walter Shandy of his birth. In a way, his book goes wrong from the beginning: instead of giving the reader straightforward facts, he gives minute background and precise explanations about that background. Also, Tristram wants to be in touch with his readers, as he said that to keep patience while reading because he will narrate his story in his own way.
Going through his story we get the description of incidence as a story in which the midwife and her license are the excuse for introducing the following: Parson Yorick, a character who is his friend and level-headed adviser of the Shandy family, and his troubles; hobby-horses; a misplaced Dedication; the midwife herself, who will eventually assist at the birth of Tristram. Parson Yorick, one of the major characters of the book, has been seen as a portrait of Sterne himself.
As we talk about the Hobby-horses; first, we begin to see that Tristram is treating his writing as a hobby. He does it just the way he wants to, and it gives him a lot of enjoyment. Second, every character in the book has a hobby, and the hobbies are a greater part of their character than anything else.
He mocks the concept of dedicating books to great men, observing the usual financial motive by offering it to anyone who will pay him 50 guineas. This mockery toward the dignified occupation of novel-writing is characteristic of Tristram, who deliberately breaks whatever rules he can think of. He includes his doodles and his sketches, and he claims that they are important graphic aids. But it creates a kind of amusement in readers as its basically a leaf, black from both sides, who will eventually assist the joke of "Alas, poor Yorick!" said by Yorick’s friend Eugneius.
Further reading more to his stories, a reader realizes that there is no predictable end to his history of himself; Tristram made it clear that he will simply keep writing until he dies. One reason is that as he writes, he is constantly reminded of other related matters that he ought to tell about. This is the "Psychology of consciousness, which is the common property everyone; one thing reminds him of another, and that reminds him of something else, and so on. But we notice that Tristram always comes around to the point sooner or later. In this way of writing, it is quiet frustrating, perhaps he did it too.
Also he gave description of various characters in which a girl named Jenny, about which he says that a Platonic relationship is possible between him and Jenny. Tristram's "dear, dear Jenny" can be the innuendo of her relationship with Jenny. Also the dual nature of Walter Shandy's hobbyhorse is portrayed: his theories and the oratory with which he tries to convince people. He is the source of some of the subtle but rollicking comedy of Tristram Shandy: Walter has his theories, but no one can understand them except him, but he never stops trying.Uncle Toby's character is the next item on the author's agenda, which he showed by the story of Aunt Dinah and the coachman serves to show the great difference between the brothers, Walter and Toby, and it shows Toby's extreme modesty.
Again we see here that the author have his own thoughts. He is satirizing techniques, rules, and mechanical approaches to writing. He continuously draws the images of different characters in readers mind by describing their hobbies and the incidents related to it.
