![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator is fairly reliable as he is omniscient and therefore “can expose secrets that characters hide from each other or those that are hidden from themselves with the effect that the reader gains an insight into hypocrisy and blindness.” (Michael Meyer 74). The authorial narrator also uses words like “he or “she” and not “I”. We can also speak of a dominant narrator, also called external focalizer, in these parts of the story mentioned above, as the external focalization “presents information of characters’ external behavior (…).” (Michael Meyer 82). That means, he is not a character in the story himself. The authorial narrator is omniscient, so he has an unlimited point of view and has the ability to look into characters but cannot share their world (non-identity). He tells us the short story from a perspective that enables the reader to look at the characters’ world from the outside. In part I as well as in part II the story is told by an authorial narrator, which is also called heterodiegetic narrator. Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is divided into three sections. ![]() Midterm Assignment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgeġ. ![]()
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