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Point of View
"A Tiny Feast" is written from the third-person point of view, with limited access to Titania's thoughts. This perspective allows readers to observe Titania and Oberon's grieving processes from the outside while still understanding Titania's emotions more intimately. The author uses flashbacks, all written in third person but only ever providing memories of Titania, to indicate that Titania is reflecting on the past while she spends time in the hospital during the cancer treatment. She remembers when Oberon first brought the boy home, when she first realized how much she cared for the boy, and when she first saw that Oberon, too, had bonded with him as a father. This close look into Titania's memories helps establish her trajectory from fairy queen to mother, suggesting to readers that parenthood consists of a series of changes from within. By maintaining the third-person narration throughout the story...
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