Dec 25, 2009

Main Street | Style

Point of View
Most of Main Street is told from a third person, limited omniscient point of view. It is third person because the narrative voice is not that of one of the characters who appears in the book: the speaker never refers to himself or herself as “I” but, instead, always relates the actions of the characters in terms of what “he” or “she” did or said. It is an omniscient voice because it has access to human thoughts and is not just limited to describing objective reality as it could be observed by anyone. It is considered limited, however, in that...