Cask of Amontillado and Barn B

Points of View in “The Cask of Amontillado” and “Barn Burning” Montresor, the narrator and main character in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” tells the story using the first-person point of view. Consistent in voice, Montresor uses a sadistic and manipulative tone that creates dramatic irony. He is an unreliable narrator because his story tries to justify his crime. “Barn Burning,” by William Faulkner, is narrated from a third-person point of view …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…a crime, which makes the narration believable, but unreliable. On the other hand, “Barn Burning” is narrated from a third-person point of view. Sarty is capable of telling the events he perceives, while the narrator presents Sarty’s thoughts and reveals them in italicized passages. The young boy struggles against his father’s authority and finally changes into an independent individual. The narrator, limited-omniscient, is accurate and allows the reader to interpret the story objectively.