WHAT'S THE FUNCTION OF FIRST-PERSON OBSESSIVE NARRATION IN POE'S STORIES???? Thank u.

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2000

Answers

Edgar Allen Poe wrote all of his stories in the 1st person because they are all writings that he created to describe, in a weird way i know, all of HIS past experiences and HIS feelings about things that HE was going through or went through some time in HIS life. For example: "THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH" is actually a story of the way that HE lost HIS loved ones to tuberculosis, which he also refers to as the CONSUMPTION.

-- Anonymous, January 23, 2001

I am not sure. Can you give me more details about this topic. I am going to write an assigment on this topic. Thanks.

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-- Anonymous, April 07, 2001

Its so the reader can see what is going on inside the narrators mind.......... he was very obsessed with the 5 senses and ppl going insane. Most of his narrators were insane and he found it very fun to write in 1st person so the reader was more interested and knew what was going on. It was very smart of him, because most readers will stay reading the story that way.

-- Anonymous, December 19, 2004