ENG 1120 Lecture 5: Rope by Katherine Anne Porter

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Any time the writer changes from 3rd to 2nd person narration, they are trying to show you something (p 144) Narrator doesn"t stimulate us to align with one character or another. Get to see both points of view, peeling away at the convention (much like how you may behave in an argument), disorientation replicates disorientation of an argument. You is used as a universal experience not a speci c person you but a general. Porter is trying to get readers to remember what it"s like to have an argument. Story set in early part of 20th century to mid 1920"s. Women having to go back to their homes once the soldiers returned from wwi. Gender roles: the wife is more pushy, the husband is the one that brings all the money. They"re isolated, town is 2 miles from the country home. Depending on each other for company, entertainment, and cooperation.

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