Review
The narrator’s description of Fern plays a vibrant role in developing his character and Fern’s character. Moreover, the vivid description displays the narrator’s desire to have Fern as his lover.
The white man (Narrator) hailing from the Northern United States is keen on describing Fern’s physical composition through flashback. The narrator argues that Fern had strange eyes that aligned with her face and place of origin. The vivid description leaves the audiences without doubts that Fern was born from a Black mother and a Jewish man. The narrator continues arguing that since her birth, Fern had something that attracted men to her. She was a beautiful girl but housed a buried sorrow that urges men to do something for her. Irrespective of her outer beauty, Fern tended to reject men’s gifts and advances, the fact that made men become protective of her. From the provided description, it can be argued that the narrator, like other men, was attracted to Fern. The narrator is attracted to Fern’s beauty, but he aims to have sex with her. Though the narrator’s desires never came true, upon leaving Macon, Georgia could not let off his mind from the girl. He was probably making plans to visit Georgia one more time to see Fern.