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The writer discusses the narrative tone in Mavis Gallant’s story The Moslem Wife and Nella Larsen’s Passing and how the narration impacts the reader in the first instance and other characters in the second. There are three sources listed in the bibliography of this five page paper.
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Passing is closely involved in the events of the story. This paper discusses the way Gallants narrators approach affects readers, and how Irenes narration affects other characters. Discussion There cannot
be a story without a narrator: someone has to tell the reader whats happening. This is so obvious that we scarcely stop to think about it, but the fact is
that a narrator is always there, standing between readers and the events being described. Therefore, there is never a time when a reader is seeing events directly; they are always
filtered through another persons viewpoint. A narrator can be excited, detached, humorous, sarcastic, unreliable, or a number of other things. The way the narrator talks can influence readers; for instance,
J.R.R. Tolkiens opening sentence of The Hobbit is famous for being one of the best "hooks" in literary history; he says "In a hole in the ground there lived a
hobbit" (Tolkien 1965:15). Were immediately intrigued. Whats a hobbit? Is it a man or an animal? And why does it live in a hole? This is the power of narration.
In Gallants short story The Moslems Wife, the narrator is detached and impersonal, with the resulting effect that readers feel detached as well. Here, for instance, are a few lines
from the opening scene, in which a pivotal event in Nettas life is taking place: shes watching as her father renews the lease on the hotel they run, that will
one day be hers. We read that her father is sure that last war (World War I) has taught Europe a lesson and such a conflict will never occur again:
"The dead of that recent war, the doomed nonsense of the Russian Bolsheviks had finally knocked sense into European heads. What people wanted now as to get on with life"
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