Binding Character and Narrative: Point of View Revisited

Back at the very beginning of the year, I posted a couple of essays here at MW about point of view, one of them dealing with choosing single person POV versus multiple , and the other comparing first and third person voices . Neither of those posts, however, addressed the basic question of why point of view is important to good storytelling. To be honest, I don’t think I addressed that question because I didn’t have a good answer for it. But recently I’ve been addressing POV issues in my di