The Suddenly Empty Chair is a short narrative written as a subjective narrative. The author, Marguerite Choi, begins the story by stating an event and introducing herself into the story. She identifies as an instructor and the expectations of this role. She tells the story from her personal experience displaying her thoughts and feelings with no insight to the way the other character feels. Her display of emotions is prominent and essential to telling the story and giving the reader understanding into the reason why she is writing a story. She feels it’s necessary to tell the story not from a news’ point of view but to tell it from hers. She uses pronouns throughout the story including I and