Narrative point of view can impact the story in different ways. This essay will analyse three stories from the reader and explain why the authors chose different point of views and how their choice impacted the reader. Different narrative points of view affect the reader in different ways, in William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’ the effect on the reader is one of surprise horror, in Tim Winton’s ‘A Long, Clear View’ the effect on the reader is one of shock and unease and in Zsuzsi Garner’s ‘The Tragedy of Premature Deaths among Geniuses’ the effect on the reader is one of sympathy. Faulkner chose the point of view of the townspeople to create suspense and shock; Winton also chose the second person point of view to create shock with conflicting
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The narrator is incredibly simple and childlike, and is mentioned to be mentally disabled, “One dummy in the family is enough!” (Garner p 31) When the librarian mentions that she is unfit to take care on her orphaned nephew, she brushes it off. “You’re that women who’s mentally unfit to be a legal guardian,” she says. She doesn’t say this meanly.” (Garner p29) She reassures herself that she is in the right, regardless of what others say. When her nephew is offered to star in a detergent commercial, she declines, jumping to the conclusion that he will develop as a television star and that he will join the lifestyle of movie stars. “I know what happens to movie stars—drugs, tattoos, sex with people you never saw before in your life.” (Garner pp28-29) Not acknowledging the fact that her nephew is only a young child, and that it is only in a commercial because he is a quick runner. The narrator is constantly jumping around in her thoughts, moving from one topic to the next with little linear progression. “All these geniuses, all so old. I feel like the ocean is inside my belly, making gushing waves.” (Garner p31) This would not be as effective if Garner chose to write in second or third
The narrator is incredibly simple and childlike, and is mentioned to be mentally disabled, “One dummy in the family is enough!” (Garner p 31) When the librarian mentions that she is unfit to take care on her orphaned nephew, she brushes it off. “You’re that women who’s mentally unfit to be a legal guardian,” she says. She doesn’t say this meanly.” (Garner p29) She reassures herself that she is in the right, regardless of what others say. When her nephew is offered to star in a detergent commercial, she declines, jumping to the conclusion that he will develop as a television star and that he will join the lifestyle of movie stars. “I know what happens to movie stars—drugs, tattoos, sex with people you never saw before in your life.” (Garner pp28-29) Not acknowledging the fact that her nephew is only a young child, and that it is only in a commercial because he is a quick runner. The narrator is constantly jumping around in her thoughts, moving from one topic to the next with little linear progression. “All these geniuses, all so old. I feel like the ocean is inside my belly, making gushing waves.” (Garner p31) This would not be as effective if Garner chose to write in second or third