Snow: Point of View and Voice

Snow: Point of View and Voice

Introduction

The short story “Snow” was written by Charles Baxter. This paper provides an analysis of this short story based on point of view and voice. The writer is a humanist and is attentive to the human experiences that keep the effect of his characters. He usually wrote in the first person point of view, carefully use metaphor and symbol, focus on character, and a setting of a real place and time.

Discussion

In Snow, Russell is the narrator that considers a time when he was 12 years old, and his brother “Ben” ...