Would you be embarrassed if you were in love with an ugly person, and were very attractive yourself? In the world today, appearance is of most importance and if you love an ugly person when you are beautiful, you are seen as dating below yourself. In the case of Paradise: by Toni Morrison, Ron is telling the story both in first and third limited person. The reason for this style of narrative is precisely because Ron is embarrassed both that he loved a homely unattractive woman, and of the way he has treated her.
At the beginning of the story, Ron starts off in first person, introducing himself by saying, "I am the man and my friend Sarah Cole is the woman." This proves to us right at the start that Ron indeed is the man that is in the narrative. Ron is ashamed of himself and therefore has to wait until he knows that Sarah is dead to get his story out of his system by telling it in this way. Banks uses first person and third person limited points of view to illustrate that......
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