Exchanging Glances | Style
Narration
The narrative technique that Wolf uses in ‘‘Exchanging Glances’’ is called meta-narration. Through this literary device, the narrator both tells the story and also comments on how she tells the story. Critic Margit Resch writes that Wolf is ‘‘unusually selfconscious, even for a writer,’’ and this tendency toward self-reflection emerges in her fiction. Early in the story, she tells readers that the details about her grandmother’s sweater and button-up boots are memories from ‘‘that April day I have chosen to recall here.’’ But memory is...
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