What is your attitude toward Edie, the narrator—sympathy, condescension, disapproval, or something more complicated? Explain
What will be an ideal response?
- Edie is smart and sensible for her age, but she has a highly critical kind of intelligence and is apt to find fault with most people. She generally keeps her mouth shut in situations, but as a narrator, she speaks candidly to the reader. Her candor might be less agreeable if she were not equally candid in confessing her own failings. She readily admits how many dumb things her young self did or said simply because she could not think of anything better. Her narration may be subjective, but it is not overtly self-serving. Because of her honesty with and about herself, and because she allows us to fully understand the reasons for her feelings—her awkwardness in unfamiliar situations, her self-consciousness about her background, the rush of complex emotions unleashed by her first crush—we feel certain that your students will respond to her with understanding and sympathy, perhaps even empathy.
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