Parents’ worst-case scenario is typically that their kids will die before themselves. We have all tried to lose someone. If it is a person who has been a near friend or a family member it can be difficult for relatives to heal afterwards. Some people are mourning for several months others will never fully recover. This essay deals with the narration, symbolism and some essential complications linked to this humanly grief, having the short story Fusilli written by Graham Swift, as the point of departure.
Graham Swift has chosen to use an omniscient third-person narrator. “He couldn’t not think about it. He could hardly enter Waitrose again. It was almost impossible to go now – though he had to – to the spot, in the aisle, where it had happened. Where he’d spoken to Dough and looked around at all the others with their trolleys and baskets and thought: They don’t know, they don’t know I’m talking to my boy in Afghanistan.” (p.2 – l. 42). The narration is omniscient because we are told about all of the father’s thoughts and feelings. The effect of the third person narration is that it becomes more trustworthy. If it had been first-person narration, the reader would have a bigger tendency to regard his thoughts as unreliable, but maybe more personal. He would seem less reliable because of his psychological and emotional distress. It is spectacular, that Swift didn’t choose to write with a first person narration in correlation with him writing in a stream of consciousness. The father’s name is not denominated which makes it effortless for others to relate to his situation.
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