Big Two-Hearted River
Beginning of paper
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, ": 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, with ....
Middle of paper
.... "On
the Quai at Smyrna", which is only possibly in the first
person, there is just one instance in In Our Time in which a
character speaks in the first person. It occurs in "Big
Two-Hearted River: Part II", an intensely personal story
which completely immerses the reader in the actions and
thoughts of Nick Adams. Hemingway's utilization of the
omniscient third person narrator allows the reader to
visualize all of Nick's actions and surroundings, which would
have been much more difficult to a ....
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