# Narrator (Second Person) — Short Fiction character guide

> Narrator (Second Person) in Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** you, yourself, d'you

**First appearance:** 0000-terror

## Snapshot

A cool, confiding voice that speaks directly to 'you,' drawing the reader into scenes of longing and regret as though you were the one living them.

## Who they are

This narrator addresses you as a companion in the story, whether recalling a girl weeping under rain outside the Empire or pressing you to admit what you would have done. The intimacy is disarming, and it makes you complicit in the desires and failures being described. Du Maurier uses this voice to collapse the distance between reader and character, so that the ache lands as your own.

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