ENG110Y5 Quiz: A Clean Well-Lighted Place
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A narrator is not the same thing as an author: it is a type of character mask. Person: grammatical, 1st person - my story, my point of view, this person tells their own story from their own point of view. Narratee: the person to whom the story is being narrated to, the narratee is not always the reader, can be a character(s) in the story. Old waiter: is obsessed with nothing" and is afraid of it, he experiences nothingness in the universe, existential fear. Young waiter: has no fears, says lines that should be said by the older waiter (inconsistency in what they know, what they fear, and what they say) Contradiction: who says what - difficult to keep track. Narrator abandonment: does not offer guidance in terms of who says what, which leads to confusion, contradiction and inconsistency. In 1965, the text was revised from i know.
