This video gave me a new way to think about why Brown may have chose Clara to be the narrator of the novel. Another reason my group came up with in class was that even though Clara is not all-knowing, and we are just getting her perspective, it seems that she has the best relationship with every other character and seems to know the most about them which could make her more knowledgeable and trustworthy than other characters to tell the story.
I hit post before I wanted. Whoops! Anyway, it's up to us to use our judgment and SENSES to figure out what's going on. I don't think this would have been possible with any other character EXCEPT Clara. She's the only narrator in the story, but she's also the only narrator who isn't at the ends of two extremes, unlike the narrators in Faulkner's novel.
The issue of the narrator in this video reminds me of Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" where we encounter a lot of different people telling a story about Caddy. We never get a narrative from Caddy's point of view and I wonder if that's because we are supposed to find which narrator to trust. I feel like Clara is the middle-ground in this story and her narrative would be most objective.
This video also gave me a new way to think about Brown's reasoning for Clara as his narrator. I never thought to think of the story in perspective of a man using a woman's voice. I believe that this could bring up several gender issues. In our small groups we focused mainly on Clara's craziness. On page 65 she states that her only companion was the maid. This made it clear how unreliable she was in her families thought and notions. I think that Brown uses Clara to make readers morally sound.
This video gave me a new way to think about why Brown may have chose Clara to be the narrator of the novel. Another reason my group came up with in class was that even though Clara is not all-knowing, and we are just getting her perspective, it seems that she has the best relationship with every other character and seems to know the most about them which could make her more knowledgeable and trustworthy than other characters to tell the story.
I hit post before I wanted. Whoops! Anyway, it's up to us to use our judgment and SENSES to figure out what's going on. I don't think this would have been possible with any other character EXCEPT Clara. She's the only narrator in the story, but she's also the only narrator who isn't at the ends of two extremes, unlike the narrators in Faulkner's novel.
The issue of the narrator in this video reminds me of Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" where we encounter a lot of different people telling a story about Caddy. We never get a narrative from Caddy's point of view and I wonder if that's because we are supposed to find which narrator to trust. I feel like Clara is the middle-ground in this story and her narrative would be most objective.
This video also gave me a new way to think about Brown's reasoning for Clara as his narrator. I never thought to think of the story in perspective of a man using a woman's voice. I believe that this could bring up several gender issues. In our small groups we focused mainly on Clara's craziness. On page 65 she states that her only companion was the maid. This made it clear how unreliable she was in her families thought and notions. I think that Brown uses Clara to make readers morally sound.