Point of View's Importance

Point Of View's Importance

Point of View is a literary technique used by the authors of the following stories: William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily," Katherine Anne Porter "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and Amy Tan "A Pair of Tickets."

Use of literary techniques can help to build a unique story from a plot; sometimes, authors will choose to use a single technique to make an impact in the plot. One of the literary techniques used in the following stories is the point of view. Point of View is a perspective from the main characters of the story. There are many types of point of view, including first-person narrative and third-person narrative as seen in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and Amy Tan's "A Pair of Tickets."

In "A Rose for Emily," the point of view is set in the third-person narrative as seen in the first paragraph of the story with the quote: "When Miss Emily Grierson died our whole town went to her funeral" [Faulkner 32]. The author uses the third-person point of view by using the word "Our" in the quote. This is noticeable and helpful when understanding whose point of view the stories told by.

In "A Pair of Tickets" the point of view in set in the first-person narrative as seen in the quote: "I can feel the skin on my forehead tingling, my blood rushing through a new course, my bones aching with familiar old pain. And I think my mother was right. I am becoming Chinese" [Tan 14]. As seen the author's use of the words "I" and "My" these words tell the readers that the point of view is coming directly from the person telling the story.

In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," the first time the point of views established is in the following quote: "Get along now, take your school books and go. There's nothing wrong with me" [Porter 85]. This quote takes place as the doctor is performing an examination on Granny Weatherall. As seen in the quote from the story, the author used the first-person narrative point of view with the use of the word "Me" informing the readers that the story will be from Granny Weatherall's point of view.

In conclusion, the stories "A Rose for Emily," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" and "A Pair of Tickets" each show how the point of view of the authors can affect how the stories written. Without the authors' use of the simplest words in a story, the readers would not understand to whom the story is suppose be about and if written using point-of-view correctly, it will save readers from confusion.