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Ah, but first person offers so many wonderful opportunities for wit and voice that are impossible in third, and Wodehouse takes great advantage of that, with Be
by dhosek 6y ago
Ah, but first person offers so many wonderful opportunities for wit and voice that are impossible in third, and Wodehouse takes great advantage of that, with Bertie Wooster as the narrator of most of the stories (I can't remember if it's a single story or a whole book that are narrated by Jeeves) and providing a wonderful example of unreliable narration. I wish I'd remembered that when I was looking for good unreliable narrators for a craft piece I wrote during my MFA.
- robotmay 6y agoDon't get me wrong; I totally get the reasons for doing it, but unfortunately I have some weird problem with reading books written that way :( When I read fiction I barely notice the words on the page and instead (sort of?) see what's happening in my head. It's not like characters even have a properly defined look, but I am visualising everything. However when the book is written in first-person, it plays havoc with my imagination and I really struggle to see the characters; it's just words on a page. It reads more like non-fiction, which for some reason doesn't trigger the same effect.
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