The Narrator In In Under Western Eyes

“The narrator is the person from whose perspective a story is told.” They are the ones responsible for recounting the events that occur in the book. There is various types of narrators that one can find in novels: First-person singular, third-person limited, omniscient., and many more including alterations of these mentioned. Wayne Booth declares: “Even the most unconscious and Dionysian of writers succeeds only if he makes us join in the dance”; this inclusion is achieved through the narrator. Each type of narrator has different sets of freedoms and limitations that they must stick to which help the telling of the story but, regardless of which type it is, their mission is always to draw the reader in. They must bring them into the story and the characters’ minds as much as possible. In addition, the novel is …show more content…
This brings into play the subject of how western people viewed Russians and their opinion on the events that take place as people observing from the sidelines and strangers to a situation like the one in Russia at the time. Furthermore, the fact that he is a character in the story and not some god-like figure, like the third-person narrator, means that he is unreliable to an extent. This is because, despite being fictional, he is still a human being and therefore unpredictable and opinionated; this means that he is able to omit or alter things that he does not desire to tells us about if he so