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Point of View in Edith Wharton's "Souls Belated".
Title: Point of View in Edith Wharton's "Souls Belated".
Category: Society & Culture / Education
Details: Words: 2051 | Pages: 8.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Point of View in Edith Wharton's "Souls Belated".
Point of view always influences the way readers perceive events. In literature, the point of view the author chooses not only affects the way readers perceive and interpret events, but it also determines, to some extent, what the readers can actually see. That is, point of view guides the way readers interpret events and draw conclusions by limiting or illuminating the amount and nature of the information from which conclusions can be drawn. In "Souls …showed first 75 words of 2051 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2051 total…knowing what he did, he began looking out the trains to Paris..." (691). The distance of the point of view echoes Gannett's distance from his own emotions. He acts mechanically, not knowing what he is doing because he does not know what he is feeling. Indeed, the distance of the narrative reflects the net numbness of the conflicting emotions that Lydia and Gannett are both feeling. Each must resign himself to marrying the one he loves.
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