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Journal Essay "It Would be Different if" Author Maggie Mitchel presents the point of view of only one character's consciousness in the short story "It Would Be Different if". In only presenting the first-person point of view, Mitchel limits readers analysis by only using the first-person narrators knowledge, experiences and perceptions. One interesting aspect of the story is how, the reader nor the characters have access to the inner lives of any other character in the story. As a result, this point of view places a heavy premium on dialogue, actions, and details to reveal character and form an analysis. Readers are provided with virtually no insight on previous events or even the narrator themselves. For example, the story starts off with the lines "She is there, which surprises me because the Shipyard is the kind of place where people crack beer bottles over each other's heads, and I wouldn't have thought it was her scene (Mitchel 209) ." Readers make a million different assumptions as to who the mentioned "she" is to try and piece together who this story is targeted to or what the purpose of the story is. …show more content…

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