James Agee, the author of A Death in the Family, tells the self-referential archetypal narrative about Rufus, a young intelligent boy, who loses his father, Jay, prematurely on in life. As opposed to the standard first person or third person limited point of view, the novel is told in third person omniscient. This allows the reader to fully indulge themselves within the storyline and notice the smallest elements of each character. Alongside with this, it enriches the essential stylistic devices such as imagery used within the plot. A student of literature can learn how to organize and recognize a quintessential nature setting that links back to imagery and personification from this book when read between the lines. In chapter one of the novel,
