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Tables of Contents for Points of View
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
INTERIOR MONOLOGUE
A Telephone Call
15
6
Dorothy Parker
I Stand Here Ironing
21
11
Tillie Olsen
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
Straight Pool
32
4
John O'Hara
The Lady's Maid
36
5
Katherine Mansfield
...& Answers
41
15
Joyce Carol Oates
LETTER NARRATION
Inter-Office
56
6
Rosellen Brown
A Bundle of Letters
62
34
Henry James
A Wilderness Station
96
30
Alice Munro
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier General
126
12
Ambrose Bierce
DIARY NARRATION
The Yellow Wallpaper
138
17
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Night Watchman's Occurrence Book
155
9
V. S. Naipaul
Amahl and the Night Visitors
164
17
Lorrie Moore
SUBJECTIVE NARRATION
The Somebody
181
8
Danny Santiago
My Side of the Matter
189
11
Truman Capote
My Sister's Marriage
200
14
Cynthia Marshall Rich
Why, You Reckon?
214
6
Langston Hughes
A & P
220
7
John Updike
Distance
227
12
Grace Paley
DETACHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods
239
18
Toni Cade Bambara
The Circuit
257
6
Francisco Jimenez
First Confession
263
9
Frank O'Connor
A Coupla Scalped Indians
272
14
Ralph Ellison
Birthday
286
12
David Wong Louie
The Passing
298
8
Durango Mendoza
MEMOIR, OR OBSERVER NARRATION
The Voice from the Wall
306
14
Amy Tan
Country
320
9
Jayne Anne Phillips
Scales
329
14
Louise Erdrich
The Bridle
343
18
Raymond Carver
The Eggs of the World
361
7
Toshio Mori
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---SINGLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
The Five-Forty-Eight
368
15
John Cheever
The Stone Boy
383
13
Gina Berriault
Doby's Gone
396
8
Ann Petry
Act of Faith
404
18
Irwin Shaw
Come Out the Wilderness
422
26
James Baldwin
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---DUAL CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Sinking House
448
13
T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Only Rose
461
15
Sarah Orne Jewett
Strong Horse Tea
476
8
Alice Walker
Uglypuss
484
25
Margaret Atwood
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---MULTIPLE CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
Fever Flower
509
13
Shirley Ann Grau
The Suicides of Private Greaves
522
27
James Moffett
Inez
549
6
Merle Hodge
ANONYMOUS NARRATION---NO CHARACTER POINT OF VIEW
A New Window Display
555
9
Nicholosa Mohr
The Lottery
564
10
Shirley Jackson
Powerhouse
574
12
Eudora Welty
Afterword
586
17
References
603
1
Related Works
604
1
James Moffett
Acknowledgments
605