Answer:
The following are each narrator from the first 3 sections of The Sweet Hereafter with the type of first person narrator they represent:
Dolores Driscoll: First person major
Billy Ansel: First person minor
Mitchell Stephens: First person observer
Explanation:
These three characters are three out of the four narrators that tell the story in the novel "The Sweet Hereafter" written by Russell Banks. They all are first person narrators as they are telling the story in their own voice as it happens through their eyes. Dolores Driscoll is the first person major as she is the main narrator of the story. She was a school driver and was driving the bus school as the accident occurs, therefore making her a key character within the story. Billy Ansel is a first person minor narrator, as he was a witness of the accident and was, with the firefighters, above the first people at the accident scene. Then there is Mitchell Stephens, who acts as a first person observer narrator, as he arrives in Sam Dent to investigate the accident. He is an observer of every person involved in it and is trying to find out exactly what has happened, which makes him an observer of the main characters from an outside perspective.
