ENG 1100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Faulkner, Arsenic
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Point of view: helps establish perspective, the vantage point of the position from which one is telling the story, can control how the reader responds to the story, 1st person narrative, i or we . Puts the narrator as a participant: 3rd person, him/her, they . Distance between the narrator and the people experiencing the events: 2nd person, you . Mostly instruction manuals are 2nd person narrative. Point of view: narrator talks in first person, he/she represents the town confederate south. Hereditary obligation on the town: she was the town eccentric, got special treatment, no taxes upon her. (since 1894) Father loaned money to the town, this is the way to pay him back. Makes her removed from life: father was overbearing, chased away all her suitors. She was finally humanized (pg81: now she"s on the level of the town, not just a family name, she"s become poor, she"ll understand, town will be able to support her.
