: Re: Referring to fictional version of an author in essay I'm writing a literary analysis essay in which the author, Tim O'Brien, uses a fictional version of himself to tell the stories in the book.
I would suggest referring to the author as "O'Brien" and his fictional self as "the narrator."
That way, you can speak to his fictional self with sentences like "When the narrator describes Rat Kiley..." or "When the narrator returns home from the border of Canada*", you can avoid confusion. Additionally, you can have a setup in your intro paragraph that says something along the lines of "The narrator in The Things They Carried acts as Tim O'Brien's fictionalized self..."
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