First-Person Fiction

The narrator may very well been speaking or writing in this story. They certainly had an audience, which is expressed in the very first line of the story, “Let me tell you…” it said on page 1. It seemed as though the events regarding the pests in the elm was what set this story in motion because it followed through with his actions to handle the infestation. The story, while in past tense, is immediate in perspective. The narrator seemed to know that this story is about none other than himself and his way of handling his problems in a last, desperate and foolish attempt to settle them. He thought it may only be about that at least until the end where he may have switched views and thought instead life is better, to keep moving on, and so on, which I saw when he mentioned something about a child at the end. He seemed to know that his actions, at the end, aren’t alright, which brought the story into a revelation, I think, with a nostalgic and tender tone to tell the story. Despite he was upset about certain things, I think it was because of this revelation he had, which related to the child he wanted, that he spoke more calmly about the entire ordeal.