Short Fiction · Character
The Narrator (The Piazza)
A new country resident who builds a piazza to properly savor Greylock's panorama, then becomes obsessed with a cottage glimmering on the distant mountain.
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Also known as Unknown, the man, this man
First appearance: The Piazza
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The narrator who builds a piazza and journeys to the mountain house, seeking the source of a distant gleam.
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He is a leisured, self-amused man who measures his house against the mountains and finds it wanting, so he adds a piazza the better to worship the view. His contentment curdles into curiosity when a far-off cottage, lit…
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