Big Two-Hearted River: Part Ii
Sudden, Unexpected Interjection "It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." At one point in his
short story, "Big Two-Hearted River: Part II", Hemingway's
character Nick speaks in the first person. Why he adopts,
for one line only, the first person voice is an interesting
question, without an easy answer. Sherwood Anderson
does the same thing in the introduction to his work,
Winesburg, Ohio. The first piece, called "The Book of the
Grotesque", is told from the first person point of view. But
after this introduction, Anderson chooses not to allow the
first person to narrate the work. Anderson and Hemingway
both wrote collections of short stories told in the third
person, and the intrusion of the first person narrator in these
two pieces is unsettling. In both instances, though, the reader
is left with a much more absorbing story; one in which the
reader is, in fact, a main character. With the exception of
"My Old Man", which is......
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