WHO'S TELLING THE STORY, ANYWAY?

THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS

Who's telling the story, anyways

• There isn't an actual character that is narrating the book.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

• Rena left the room to carry out her hospitable commission. Page 25
• Tryon found the office without difficulty. Page 104

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• The narrator is more of an outside observer in the book

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

• He would have given his life for Rena. Page 188
• Rena saw Plato untying the pony as the lady climbed into the phaeton. Page 243

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• The view that the narrator has in the story is third person

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

• Even a dumb brute can be won by kindness. Page 177
• He took down a volume bound in legal calf and glanced through it. Page 171

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• Throughout the book, the narrator changes thoughts

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

• Rena did not know
• Tryon took the wreath and bowed his thanks.

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• The narrator uses third person pronouns
• She, He, They, Him, Her ext.

SENTENCE EXAMPLES

• This was her first direct order for the specific garment. Page 59
• She was never sick in her life. Page 89

SENTENCE EXAMPLE P.77

• He looked up amiably from the book before him and read trouble in her face.

OPION

• I think that the narrator made the book harder to understand
• Changes characters
• Didn't feel that I could relate to the story

SENTENCE EXAMPLE p.125

• "Now's de time, boy, fer you ter be lookin' roun' fer some nice gal er yo' own color

CITING

• On page 97 the narrator was sharing Warwick's thoughts.
• The on page 98, the narrator switches to Tryon's thoughts.

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• The narrator also has an omniscients view.
• The narrator knows what everyone is thinking but it still is in third person

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Chesnutt, Charles W. "The House behind the Cedars." Athens: University of Georgia, 2000. Print.