Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Article Review The narrator in “The Brown House” employs a unique narrative technique; the double telling aspect and the author’s choice of words are subdued, this intrigues the reader’s sense to evoke meaning through the thematic concerns addressed covertly. The subdued narrative voice in the passage is passive yet illuminates a lot about the narrators American-Japanese culture, the perspective of the woman in that society and the patriarchal culture. Mrs. Hattori is in the background, but the author foregrounds her voice through subversion. The woman in that community was just to be seen and not to be heard; Yamamoto defies...
