At The Pitt-Rivers Analysis

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The narrator of “At the Pitt-Rivers” is very observant; In fact, the entire story is based upon his observations. He notices small behaviors and details that make him seem like he is acting like an anthropologist. The narrator notices as his subject “...sat there with her hands in her lap, watching the door, and radiating away” (Lively). To an average person, the girl he is describing would just look like any other person waiting on a bench; they wouldn’t even look twice. But to the narrator, who is acting like an anthropologist, he observes much more. The narrator notices her social relationships and her behaviors, a trait characteristic to anthropologists. After he observes the same woman and her male counterpart, he is found fascinated by …show more content…
This changes drastically from a different point in the story where he thinks he is very knowledgeable about being in love. He references his past experiences with love: “As a matter of fact, I’ve been in love myself twice” (Lively). Although the narrator is only 16 years old, he believes that he knows what love is, and seems fairly confident about it. However, after he observes the couple, he questions if he really knows anything about love at all and states “Now I began to think I didn’t really know anything. Looking at those two- watching them, if you like- was a bit like seeing something go behind a thick glass window” (Lively 29). Because of observing the couple, he realizes many things about love that contradict everything he had previously pictured. He realizes that his experiences with love are so far from what he is observing that he uses an analogy to compare it to watching from the outside in. When the couple is seen separated, the narrator is even further discouraged. The love that he was so fascinated by is no longer. If their love didn’t work out, what hope could he possibly have? Seeing the couple’s behavior made him very unsure about what love really was.
Even though this experience has changed the narrator’s view on love, I do not think that, that alone, will make him a better writer. The narrator had his views on love changed and as
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