When somebody tells us an interesting story we usually like to talk about it. Some of us let our imagination create our own special details to make the story a little more catchy, others may have heard the story several times by different people and consequently combine the two or three different versions to make the story more accurate while others just say the story the way they heard it. In Gary Gildner's short story "Sleepy Time Gal" the narrator had heard the story from his mother and his father so he combines the two perspectives to make his story more complete and interesting by at the same time adding his own point of view. He makes of himself throughout this story a person that people could classify as "social and simple" by the way you feel active interaction in the way he speaks and the correct language he decides to use to make the reader feel comfortable.
It is really impressive how even though the story was first told by the father to the mother, they make emphasis in different points of the story from the way each one felt it without changing the story and making us notice they both have different points of view. Also, since the narrator underlines the different points each one made as they told the story to him , it made me get a different emotion as I read. For example where he focuses that the mother was the one that told him that the girl would rest her head on Phill's shoulder while .
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he played, and that was where he got the idea for the name of the song, it makes me imagine a girl telling this story as if it were very romantic instead of the father just saying it because it happened with the lack of any sentimental value for him. I also think it is very attractive how he adds that he would love to add more emotions to the story but he can not do it because the story is not his story and does not want to "intrude", it shows he respects the story and makes us readers feel that he is a reliable narrator which sometimes can be an important aspect the readers a looking for in a narrator.
