From what point of view is the story told? How old are the characters, in your opinion, and which of the characters do you feel closest to, as the reader of the story? Why? Explain your answer with at least 1 quote/passage from the text. (1 Paragraph)
The Dinner Party, By, Joshua Ferris, is told in the third person focusing mainly on the male following him as the wife reappears and disappears through out the evening. As well as the story explains the husbands feelings and actions while not digging at all into the life of the female. The story in captures a couple that seems to be in there mid twenties that perfectly portrays a turn of the century couple that is both comfortable and compassionate with each other. They are getting ready for there friends to visit for a dinner party. It seem to the reader to be a unwanted and dreaded expearance to be had the male even goes to the point of breaking down and blurting that “I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can’t goddam do it.”
ReplyDeleteThe narrators point of view in the story is very bias and he has a grim view of the world. The characters are all adults but the way the narrator is so displeased with the same situations is childish. The person you feel the closest to in this story is the wife she is just trying to find a away to please everyone and still be happy. This story brings into question the struggle between suffering in silence for the benefit of someone else or just not going through with it at all. The whole beginning of the story is spent by the narrator trying to mess with the people. “Lets make them do a shot of tequila” says he narrator trying to make the night somewhat bearable, the last thing he expects is them not arriving. The only reason the wife goes along with it is because she is expecting them to be there soon and she wont have to deal with he husband alone much longer. I think somewhere in the back of her mind she feared them not coming though
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