Many things in a story can create suspense, the way characters act, setting, the mood and the point of view. In the short story “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez, the central conflict is a major source of suspense. Suspense is first created when Captain Torres enters the barber shop, through the use of first person point of view and the barber’s actions.
The first moment that creates suspense is when Captain Torres enters the barbershop. The barber thinks “He came in without a word...And when [he] recognized him [he] started to shake” (342). This makes the reader wonder why the barber is scared of the man who entered the barber shop. THe man is then described “...taking off his cartridge-studded belt with the pistol holster suspended from it” (342). The reader then begins to wonder why the man has a pistol holster on his belt. It is then revealed that the barber is a revolutionary and that the manis Captain Torres,
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If the story would had been told from omniscient third person, then one would have known that Captain Torres knew who the barber was and then we would not have had the suspense of whether Captain Torres knew who the barber was. Furthermore if the short story was from Torres’ point of view the story would still be suspenseful. The first person point of view whether it was Torres or the barber still makes the story suspenseful. If it was Torres’ point of view then the suspense would come from whether or not. Nevertheless if the story was told from objective third person then we would not have known anything about what the barber was thinking and if he even knew the Captain and would have just seemed like a Captain and would have just seemed like a Captain talking about his job with his barber until the very end. If it was told from other point of views it wouldn’t have been suspenseful, therefore it had to be told from first person view in order for the main conflict to be
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If the story was in third person limited, there would be no fear or suspense, because we would not know the barbers feelings/thoughts. Which means,”I started to shake”, would not be there(and all the other feelings/thoughts of
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