Dec 23, 2009

All the King's Men | Style

Point-of-View
The character of Jack Burden tells the story of All the King’s Men from his point of view. While most of Jack’s narration is first person, Warren occasionally switches Jack’s narration to third per- son. In those few cases, the narrator is put at a greater distance from the story and the action, as if Jack is speaking about someone other than himself.

Chapter four includes an instance of Jack speaking of himself in the third person. Jack is telling about a time when his mother came to the university to visit him in his apartment, a filthy, rundown...