Junot Diaz does a good job of showing us the reader in her short story "Aurora" of the use of voice and how to write and design an interesting character. All throughout the story we are following the main character, who is a dealer in New York, in his day to day life. We watch him and his partner go through normal days but what Diaz does well is we watch the main character from his internal voice. We see him look back on moments in his life with a girl whom he lived named Aurora. The big aspect to this is that it is all internal dialogue, sort of a stream of consciousness. We watch him conflict with his outward self versus hs inner self and all of this is done well be how he sets up the scene of the memory and how it is told.
In Edwidge Danticat's "Night Woman"we have this beautiful relation given by the main character, a mother and prostitute, as she blends together the characters in the story, the men who come at night and her son, and the setting. Danticat uses her tone to set the mood of this small one bedroom apartment and how small it is. I made me think of when me and my mom lived together in a one bedroom apartment in my hometown.
One thing that both these stories have in common is how the narrator tells the story. They explain everything we need to know and what there is to keep us interested by using their voice and their tone.
You'll also notice that neither have traditional story arcs: Diaz's character doesn't change, Danticat's character doesn't do much, not many events in the story. But the voices drive them.
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