I'll take "Doomed Marriages" for a thousand, Alex. Heh.
Well done, and you know, I generally cannot take first-person POV, but you made it lose itself so thoroughly in the story that it just didn't stick out; it feels natural. Interesting; I didn't know that. Choice of POV doesn't really affect my enjoyment of fiction much at all as long as the writing is good and the voices ring true. What I like about first person is using it for unreliable narration and actually saying less instead of more, as here, to gradually reveal the layers of rationalization and self-deception. Anyway, glad to hear that you thought this worked.
Because House's self-image, while distorted in many ways, is essentially true, but Wilson can't see himself very well at all. He can't break through his own Wall of Pretense; he relies upon House, the human sledgehammer, to do what he can't do for himself. Very well put. IMO, House has this kind of hard clarity when looking at the world all the time, and Wilson is constantly trying to get him to soften it or acknowledge nuances. Conversely, Wilson is utterly dependent on House to force him to see things, especially himself, for what they truly are.
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Date: 2011-02-21 12:25 pm (UTC)Heh.
Well done, and you know, I generally cannot take first-person POV, but you made it lose itself so thoroughly in the story that it just didn't stick out; it feels natural.
Interesting; I didn't know that. Choice of POV doesn't really affect my enjoyment of fiction much at all as long as the writing is good and the voices ring true. What I like about first person is using it for unreliable narration and actually saying less instead of more, as here, to gradually reveal the layers of rationalization and self-deception. Anyway, glad to hear that you thought this worked.
Because House's self-image, while distorted in many ways, is essentially true, but Wilson can't see himself very well at all. He can't break through his own Wall of Pretense; he relies upon House, the human sledgehammer, to do what he can't do for himself.
Very well put. IMO, House has this kind of hard clarity when looking at the world all the time, and Wilson is constantly trying to get him to soften it or acknowledge nuances. Conversely, Wilson is utterly dependent on House to force him to see things, especially himself, for what they truly are.
Thanks very much for your comments!