The blurred line between first and third person narrative in Tim Winton's Cloudstreet

In this paper I will discuss the way that Winton blurs the usual distinction between first and third person narrative. The narrator frequently switches from third person to first person, which lends weight to Saito's argument that, in fiction writing, a third person narrator is really a potential first person "I-narrator". A so-called third person narrator is created by the author as a tool to communicate with the reader, and as such, is in effect a character. The absence the pronoun 'I' does not make the narrator less of a character than any other character mentioned more explicitly in the story. This suggests that the generally accepted division based on pronominal use, or more specifically the presence or absence of the pronoun 'I', is not so useful for describing narrative style.6KJ00004266324論説Articledepartmental bulletin pape