Point Of View In The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls

The Glass Castle: Prompt #1

The book The Glass Castle is written by Jeanette Walls, which details her unconventional childhood growing up with an alcoholic father and a mother who seems to not want the responsibility of raising a family. In The Glass Castle, published in 2005, Walls seems to reveals the intimate details of her upbringing within a dysfunctional yet loving family. Due to the fact that it is, a first-person point of view can effectively prove through storytelling and it can also have limitations to it. When a text is in first person point of view in general, certain opinions can be left out and may influence the reader's bias. A bias is a perspective/opinion. If The Glass Castle were told as an autobiography as opposed to a memoir, the story would have been more efficient in storytelling.

In second person narrative, the narrator is not a character in the story but "you" are. In a third person narrative, the narrator exists completely outside of the story. All characters are described as "he", "she", or "it". In third person omniscient narration, the narrator can describe the innermost thoughts and feelings of her characters. This book The Glass Castle is written in first person point of view and with that said some advantages that it has is that it mirrors real life for example. We can only experience life from our own point of view, we don't know what other people are thinking. Also with first point of view it's easier to portray the characters personality, feelings and view of the world, as they are doing most of the talking. First person point of view makes readers more comfortable with the story because first person narratives have an easier time garnering empathy from their audience, since the reader spends so much time in the character's