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Who Shall Remain Nameless
In “Standard Loneliness Package,†we encounter a first-person narrator who, despite also being the main character/protagonist of the narrative, remains nameless. Most of the other characters, even passing minor characters, get names, but the narrator-protagonist is always just “I.†In Salvage the Bones, the first-person narrator goes unnamed for entire first chapter, before we learn her name, Esch, at the beginning of chapter two. Given the important and influential role occupied by a first-person narrator, does learning their name matter for the sake of our experience of the narrative or the storyworld? Compose a 3-4 paragraph response that discusses your thoughts on the significance or impact of learning or not learning the narrator’s name in the case of these two narratives (make sure to cite specific details from these narratives in your response). Though you are not limited to them, you might address the following talking points:
How does a first-person narrator-protagonist’s lack of a name (or the delayed reveal of their name) affect how you read, perceive, or understand them as a character?
Does it make much of a difference if or when you learn the narrator’s name? How?
Does it matter if the narrator goes unnamed while so many other characters are named? Why or why not?
Are there other factors that hold more significance than the narrator’s name? If so, what and how?
How does the named/unnamed narrator issue matter when comparing/contrasting “Standard Loneliness Package†and Salvage the Bones? Does the issues matter in one of the narratives more than the other? Why/how so?