Nicola’s critique of Bob’s Jefferson Street 2
October 6th, 2009 at 16:02
There are too many characters for me to be able to follow, expecially as the narrator figure is not established enough for me to have a sense of who the person might be. Also how are all these people connected to the narrator and the current situation of the narrator? It’s like an historical account which people, say of one particular family, could easily follow cos they know all the context. Throughout the text the narrator sticks to one point of view and one argument so there is no sense of discovery or an experience the reader can share in. How are all the memories, all these lives connected to the progress idea in the narrator’s sensibility- that might be a way to explore this subject. How could you talk about your feelings about progress without using the word progress? Is there progress in the narrators life, or not, and what’s that like, how does that manifest itself?