english

Richard Wright’s “Big Black Good Man” is written from a limited omniscient point of view, where the narrator knows everything that goes on in one character’s mind and emotions, but sees other characters through that characters limited perspective.  James Joyce’s “Araby” and Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” are both written from a first-person narrative point of view, which is more obviously based on that one character’s perspective.  Discuss how each of the stories uses details, descriptions, statements and the like to show us not only an interaction among characters, but more specifically to show us the necessarily limited point of view that each of us has.  This is not to criticize the characters, necessarily, but to show us how each of us sees reality from our own point of view, and none of us is truly “omniscient,” or all-knowing.