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Point Of View In The Handmaid's Story

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The use of dialogue gives a sense of immediacy and an impression of direct address. Basically by having the opening sentences in dialogue creates the illusion of first-person point of view. Regardless, the actual point of view is made fairly clear after the first couple of lines in the dialogue. The third person narrator directs the reader's attention to setting and characterization, two important elements to the story.
The third-person point of view is also outside the story but looks in and discloses what is observed by describing it, interpreting it, or commenting on it. This narrator is a out of the way narrator who does not engage into Lydia's or George's thought and feelings. The narrator has a limited point of view with the dialogue
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