ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ernest Hemingway, Free Indirect Speech, Narration
9 Feb 2017
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Story that believes that life is meaningless. Obsessed with the idea of nothing, depression. From the beginning the less sympathetic waiter says that the reason he old men wanted to kill himself was because of nothing ! turn nothing into something. Nothing = multitude of meaning that nothing can take on in certain contexts ie. war, social isolation nothing has power, meaning and various values. Story consist of mainly dialogue between 2 waiters at a spanish caf at night. Narrator rarely speaks; there is no he said ! narrator introduces character but not present at all times. The longest passage in the story is said by the narrator which enters free indirect discourse = narrator speaks through the older waiter. Omniscient narrator = third person narrator functions like god; higher authority who sees everything in the story tells readers about what is happening ! way of mimicking the godless world. This world is supposed to have a missing omniscient narrator.
