I’m trying to come up with a list of what I’m belaboringly calling “deuteragonistic narrators”—i.e., first-person narrators who are not the protagonists in their own stories. Some classic examples: Nick in The Great Gatsby Jim in My Ántonia “we” in “A Rose for Emily” And that’s all I can come up with. Sorta-kinda DNs can [...]

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