Question

Can you elaborate on your understanding of the narrator in Daly's "Sixteen?"

Answer 1

Answer:

Daly's "Sixteen" is written in the first person, which allows readers to have insight into the narrator's thoughts and feelings.

Explanation:

Sixteen is a short story written by Maureen Daly, an Irish-born American writer. She wrote it when she was sixteen years old. It is one of her most famous works, along with others she wrote while still in her teens.

The story is told from the first-person point of view. This point of view is easily recognizable by the use of pronouns I and we. We view the events the story tells about through the eyes of the narrator. This gives us insight into the narrator's thoughts and feelings.

We can conclude that the given story is written in the first-person view already in the first sentence: Now don't get me wrong. Me is a form of the pronoun I, which instantly reveals the first-person perspective.