Victory over Japan | Style
Point of View‘‘Victory Over Japan’’ is narrated in the first person by Rhoda Manning, a third-grade girl. Like many of Gilchrist’s female characters, Rhoda is completely self-absorbed, which makes her version of the events she recounts entirely subjective.
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Allowing her characters to speak for themselves is typical of Gilchrist’s fiction and ‘‘Victory Over Japan’’ is no exception. Since Rhoda is a child when she recounts these events, it is natural that her narrative voice will be that of a young child. But critics have commented that...
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