tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042013599366269107.post7175259119638126536..comments2023-06-13T05:31:49.959-07:00Comments on The Literary.: Roth’s First Person Point of View in Operation ShylockRobert Detmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13451775891714123809noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042013599366269107.post-75911663189177380172015-10-23T08:25:37.856-07:002015-10-23T08:25:37.856-07:00Jim,
Thanks for the comment--as usual, food for t...Jim,<br /><br />Thanks for the comment--as usual, food for thought!<br /><br />I agree completely. I have been dealing with this issue with my current novel. The problem is made explicit when the first person character has any bias toward a secondary character (which is often unavoidable, particularly when the first person character has strong opinions). I have tried to mediate this by not Robert Detmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13451775891714123809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5042013599366269107.post-91982549608977283182015-10-09T10:39:36.772-07:002015-10-09T10:39:36.772-07:00One challenge, to me, for 1st Person concerns othe...One challenge, to me, for 1st Person concerns other characters: the writer has to give the narrator's POV on them so that the reader sees them exactly as the narrator does—in a fairly proscribed way; but the WRITER also has to weigh in and somehow signal the reader that s/he recognizes the limits of the narrator's POV w/r/t these other characters, has to open them up, develop them within Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02088100982761595050noreply@blogger.com