Many authors strive to create characters that are so different from one another that they complement each other greatly. Charles W. Chesnutt succeeded in doing this in his short story “The Wife of his Youth”, where he created two characters, one from the North and one from the South, who are very dissimilar from the other. In this excerpt from “The Wife of his Youth” by Charles W. Chesnutt, the author uses dialogue and narrative point of view in order to characterize the differences between Mr. Ryder and ‘Liza Jane as well as to express the differences between the values of these characters.
Chesnutt uses dialogue and narrative point of view in order to characterize the differences between the two characters of the excerpt by creating a contrast
