Point Of View In Who's Irish By Gish Jen

Changing the Story As a reader progressed through a story, the point of view should be fairly easy for them to figure out what character’s point of view the story is told from. Point of view is a literary term that has an extremely large impact on the story. Although all literary terms have an impact on a story, the point of view, if changed, can alter a story into a whole new reading. In the reading “Who’s Irish” by Gish Jen, the answer to whose point of view is the story being told from jumps out to the reader immediately. This short story is one where the point of view helps drill the meaning of the story into the reader’s head. In “Who’s Irish” point of view is used to reveal the true meaning behind the story and if the point of view were to change, it would change the whole concept of the story. “Who’s Irish” is a short story about a Chinese grandmother who comes across both cultural and generation difficulties when trying to babysit her granddaughter. The grandmother left China with her daughter in hopes to find a better life with more opportunities. Little did the

This view would allow the reader to see everyone’s thoughts and ideas, given that the author does show all the necessary character’s thoughts. This would change how the reader feels about the story and it would not drive the reader to side with the grandmother. The author’s original idea was to have the reader empathize with the grandmother and to understand the grandmother’s actions, but if the story were to be written in third person; the reader would have to option to empathize with the mother or the grandmother and that is not what the author originally wanted. It is clear that the point of view is meticulously chosen by the author to help get the meaning and point of the story across to the