Reliable? What kind of fiction is the Foreword?

[Terrance]

That's an odd statement form the author of   "The Killers" 


http://www.geocities.com/su_englit/hemingway_killers.html

Actually, I have no idea if what Ernest said he said in earnest. 

But again, 1st or 3rd person is only a matter of kind. A choice of 
person (1st, 3rd). 

1st person can be very difficult for writers and readers. 

but it's the subsequent choices (or techniques) of degree and so forth
that make the writing easy or difficult for both the writer and reader. 

for readers, identifying the kind of narrative (person- 1st or 3rd) is
relatively easy.  

The narrative of "The Killers" is 3rd person. 

The narrative of Great Expectations is 1st person. 

What's difficult is figuring out how the author works from the
narrative-person and how what he does effects the reader,  character,
narrator ... and so on. 








Malignd wrote:
> 
> <<to say that a story is told in the first or the
> third person tells us nothing of importance ...>>
> 
> Hemingway eschewed the first person because he felt it
> was too easy.