Throughout the novel that was written by Isabel Allende, there were minor confusions as to who the narrator of the story was. In the beginning there was noticeable usage of the Third Person indicating that Isabel was the narrator at the moment, but as the story progressed there was usage of the First Person which put a reader such as myself in a flux of confusion. The narrator at that time was led to be Esteban Trueba mainly because there were remarks of when he made “mistakes” which would make him sound like he wasn’t to blame for them. However, as the story continues, there seems to be yet another narrator who happens to be Alba, Esteban’s granddaughter. Her part of being the narrator is because she is reading events from a journal she uncovered as well as her own story. Isabel’s usage of double narration shows that there are two parts of the story and is used through Esteban Trueba and his granddaughter Alba, which can cause an effect of reading the same story through a different person’s view.
The effects of double narration are so that the reader is able to read two different points of view. In every situation there are two sides to every story and in Isabel’s novel the whole story can be heard. In this situation it showed that neither side can be viewed as biased, or be biased, since contradictions in Esteban’s and Alba’s story were thrown left and right. In Esteban’s point of view he seems to inform the reader of all the past mistakes he has made in order for the reader to show some sympathy towards him. Most of the time it appeared that he might’ve exaggerate what really happened in order to make himself seem kind of heroic, or intelligent, when really he seemed to be the exact opposite. There were parts in the story when he would cast aside his own family because he believed that he didn’t need to “care for his family…only provide for them,” which made him sound heroic but can be found selfish in another person’s view. Even if others may not...