POV. This makes me want to barf only because I have a serious problem staying in one point of view. I know that all the great authors that ever live were a master at POV but I just don't understand how they do it. It's like they transform their mind into a world that only speaks in that POV. It's irritating. Who would ever go around town thinking, "Katherine likes to go into the book store because she loves to read" when I'm the one going into the bookstore. If I referred to myself in 3rd person all the time I would go crazy.
We read a short story yesterday in English called "Hills Like White Elephants" and it had a really stange POV. Hemingway hid his true purpose of the story behind his point of view very well. I never understood the story until we discussed it in class. I personally felt detatched from the story because I didn't have any idea of what they were talking about. Now that I have been told what they are talking about, it's obvious. With Hemingway's POV in the story, I think you have to pay close attention and acutally read the story multiple times before anyone can know what these two people were talking about. Any story that uses this POV is going to be difficult. They require multiple readings and I just don't feel attatched to stories like that. I like to be in the heads of my characters like with my outside reading book, Pride and Prejudice (which is the best book writen in all of history), Jane Austen uses a 3rd person POV but she enters each characters thoughts and discreetly tells the reader what they are thinking. I just don't like the way Hemingway's POV connects with the readers.
Hemingway should a make a living in magic because he hid the point to the story very well in Hills Like White Elephants. I didn't even realize somethings till we spoke of them in class. Plus you make a good point on how authors create the point of view, how in the world would go around speaking in 3rd person all the time, they would seem crazy themselves.
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