ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Atwood, Metafiction, Pzl P.11
Document Summary
The problem of telling all metafictional biography about someone who lies and who doesn"t give freely of herself (doesn"t disclose every aspect of herself) No narrator/central authority that is writing a novel about grace. Each section is organized patterns at the beginning. Fictional and nonfictional voices, and depiction of a real person. Real people can"t make personal editorial choices, one truth, and responsibility to get the story right. Atwood is bound by documents (law/murder), she has to find her version of grace amongst the ones that already exist (celebrity, murderess) Moodie p. 23 want people to look at grace through her own eyes. Trying to find grace"s character in her face guilt is written on her face, looks like she has something to hide. Grace is a figure of interest and gossip. She is a difficult text people do not understand how she could have done this. Alias grace a way of talking about her without mentioning her.
