: Re: What is the difference between writing in the first and the third person? What kind of story is better suited for each point of view? Are there advantages or disadvantages inherent to them?

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Other answers address the differences between first and third person narration but ignore the last type of narration available to a writer - second person narration. Telling a story by dictating to the reader what he or she (the reader) is doing, can create an uncanny, mysterious, eerie and hypnotic effect on the atmosphere of the narrative.

Of course, this is a difficult effect to achieve and if done poorly it can make a story difficult to read.

See Carlos Fuentes' short story Aura for a great example of this type of narration.

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