Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘Young Goodman Brown’ are told as third-person narratives, not as first-person narratives. The difference is that a third-person narrative presents the character
"Rip Van Winkle" and "Young Goodman Brown" are told as third-person narratives, not as first-person narratives. The difference is that a third-person narrative presents the characters to us in the words of a narrator rather than from the words of the characters themselves. The story contains descriptions such as “Rip Van Winkle did this” […]