The angle of perspective from which the story is reported is a 1st person point of view, unlike the first two volumes of the trilogy. Indeed, throughout the story, we hear the descriptions and views of the main character, Fanshawe’s old friend. He told the adventures as he experienced it, thus the story isn’t completely objective; it is impregnated by his perceptions, knowledge and judgment. Moreover, because it is Fanshawe’s friend who is relating the story, it allows the reader to better understand his decisions and interpret his actions. The narrator opens his mind to the reader and permits him to more profoundly dive in the story. Besides, because the two other stories of the New York Trilogy aren’t told from a 1st person perspective,
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They were very good friends during their childhood and did almost everything together. They even looked like brothers, almost like twins, thought Fanshawe’s mother. But, in the inside, they always had been very different; the narrator was full of emotions, feelings and affections, while ‘‘he [Fanshawe] was cold inside. He was all dead in there’’(The New York Trilogy, p.256). As they grew older, their relation became more and more uncomfortable to the narrator. Indeed, their relationship started to become uncanny, similarly to the affiliation between Blue and Black in the second novella of the trilogy; it is synonym of anxiety and tension. It has a thing to do with the fact that the narrator always thought that Fanshawe was better than the rest of the world, better than him. The narrator is constantly haunted by the idea of Fanshawe’s superiority.When he disappears and leaves him with the task of reviewing his work, the narrator, who himself lacks in creativity, seize the work of his friend and his family too. Indeed, he encounters Sophie, Fanshawe’s girlfriend, and falls in love with her almost immediately. She represents all that the narrator have always wish for in a woman. Therefore, the narrator takes on the life of his missing friend and starts slowly to lose himself in the meantime. In the same manner, he becomes obsessed with the search for
They were very good friends during their childhood and did almost everything together. They even looked like brothers, almost like twins, thought Fanshawe’s mother. But, in the inside, they always had been very different; the narrator was full of emotions, feelings and affections, while ‘‘he [Fanshawe] was cold inside. He was all dead in there’’(The New York Trilogy, p.256). As they grew older, their relation became more and more uncomfortable to the narrator. Indeed, their relationship started to become uncanny, similarly to the affiliation between Blue and Black in the second novella of the trilogy; it is synonym of anxiety and tension. It has a thing to do with the fact that the narrator always thought that Fanshawe was better than the rest of the world, better than him. The narrator is constantly haunted by the idea of Fanshawe’s superiority.When he disappears and leaves him with the task of reviewing his work, the narrator, who himself lacks in creativity, seize the work of his friend and his family too. Indeed, he encounters Sophie, Fanshawe’s girlfriend, and falls in love with her almost immediately. She represents all that the narrator have always wish for in a woman. Therefore, the narrator takes on the life of his missing friend and starts slowly to lose himself in the meantime. In the same manner, he becomes obsessed with the search for