{"id":24,"date":"2017-03-31T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asrmader\/?p=24"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T21:33:06","slug":"is-auster-really-that-narcissistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asrmader\/2017\/03\/31\/is-auster-really-that-narcissistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is who in City of Glass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hello everyone! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last book, last essay last blog post- we\u2019re coming to a bittersweet end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I have some thoughts. Not a lot, but some. On Wednesday, Zach and I were kind of talking about why Auster put himself in his book as a character. I (somewhat jokingly) asked \u201cis he really that narcissistic?\u201d, and Zach said something along the lines of (sorry bud, I don\u2019t remember exactly) Auster\u2019s in there to make you think. So I did think. A lot. Aaand the best that I could come up with is that Auster is in the book so that he can detach the narrator from himself. By interacting with the narrator, it confirms that the narrator must be someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said in seminar today, I think that the narrator is Quinn himself. I know that Christina already thinks this\/ has a blog post about it, and I did talk about it in seminar today, so I don\u2019t have anything new to contribute. But here are some things that I\u2019ll try to convince you with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The narrator knows stuff that came before Quinn bought the notebook<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe he \u2018later forgot\u2019 the dreams because he is no longer Quinn- (this is a bit of a stretch, but) because Quinn doesn\u2019t exist anymore he can\u2019t remember his dreams, but the new Quinn, being the narrator, knows about them because he <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">does<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remember them, but because he\u2019s not Quinn he doesn\u2019t realize why he knows about them??????? (I\u2019ve just confused myself, really) <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It would explain why he cares so much at the end, and is super mad at Auster for not doing anything to help him<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quinn\u2019s body is never found, so it\u2019s not like he died- he just became someone else<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also mentioned the Stillman Sr. doppleg\u00e4ngers today, and how in lecture it was suggested that both of them could have been Stillman. I don\u2019t have any textual evidence to back this up, so it\u2019s more of a personal fantasy. While I was reading the book for the first time last weekend, I also thought that both could be Stillman. There\u2019s a part in the novel (I\u2019ll put the actual quote and page number in when I get home, as I am currently writing this without the book on me), where the narrator says something about Daniel imagining Mrs. Stillman naked is not the only mistake he made? I thought that maybe he picked the wrong Stillman, so he went down the wrong timeline. If he had picked the other one, because he\u2019s all shiny and clean, maybe he would have lived a proper detective story. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Last book, last essay last blog post- we\u2019re coming to a bittersweet end. Anyways, I have some thoughts. Not a lot, but some. On Wednesday, Zach and I were kind of talking about why Auster put himself in his book as a character. 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