How does Joyce use narrative techniques to involve the reader and create empathy with the main character?
In order to involve the reader in the story and create empathy with the main character Joyce uses the first person narrative to evoke that it is a story being subjectively perceived. It appears as if the narrator, being also the main character, gives an account of his unfiltered personal experience. Consequently, the reader is almost as close to the events as the main character himself, and one gets the impression as if one can look directly into the head of the narrator, for instance, when he utters that he “saw [him]self as a creature driven and derided by vanity” (p.767). Furthermore, there are many situations where one feels pity towards the narrator, namely when he says, e.g., that his “eyes were often full of tears” (p.764), and also almost the same unease the narrator posesses, when one gets to know that he “took […] [his] seat in a third-class carriage of a deserted train.” (p.766). Often, it appears as if the reader can be seen as some kind of confidant, since one gets the i
