Black Is My Favorite Color | Style

Point of View
This was the first story that Malamud wrote in the first-person point of view—characterized by the use of "my" and "I"—which is a more personal style of telling a story. It also gives the story more impact, since the narrator is communicating his or her thoughts and feelings directly to the reader, as opposed to using a third-person narrative ' 'voice'' to guide the telling of the tale. For example, when Nat Lime says in the beginning that ‘‘I was still feeling not so hot after Ornita left,'' he then characterizes himself as a ' 'bachelor with a daily...

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