Question

Which of these excerpts from "Once in a Lifetime" by Jhumpa Lahiri most clearly uses second-person point of view?

A) In addition to the quality and quantity of the food, she was worried about the weather . . .

B) Our mothers had met when mine was pregnant. She didn't know it yet; she was feeling dizzy and had sat down on a bench in a small park.

C) Your father was in the suit and tie he always wore, his handsome, bespectacled face leaning toward someone in conversation.

D) By the following year I had outgrown the coat, and to my great relief it was donated to charity.

E) During the party it started snowing, as predicted, stragglers arriving with wet, white-caked coats that we had to hang from the shower-curtain rod.

Answer 1

C) Your father was in the suit and tie he always wore, his handsome, bespectacled face leaning toward someone in conversation.

Answer 2

Second person stories tend to make the reader a character in the book. Second person stories refer to the stories wherein, the reader is directly addressed. This narration is often used by the writers in order to bring the readers closer to the story by characterizing them in the book. When referring to the second person the writer mentions the pronoun "you" in contrary with first-person "I" or third person like he, she, they etc.

Excerpt from "Once in a Lifetime" by Jhumpa Lahiri which most clearly uses second-person point of view is:

Your father was in the suit and tie he always wore, his handsome, bespectacled face leaning toward someone in conversation.