> i remember getting a bad feeling about that right
off the
>bat. my feeling was, "tell me what he said and i'll
decide for
>myself."
But mikermedarlin', when this is working the way it OUGHT to,
the point of it is to offer a double perspective of objective
fact (what he says, as in 3rd person narrative) and the
attitude of the 1st person narrator to it. As the reader, you
are concerned with both. If somebody is telling you what to
think, you can equally be told that in the 3rd person, and
can equally judge it yourself, but the sidelight of a
first-person reaction and reproduction is not there. Am I
making any sense? There is no particular point in writing a
first-person narrative which is trying to be objective. The
subject matter in first-person narrative is not just the
setting and the other characters, but the eyes and mind of
the narrator.
MM
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