Narrator and point of view

The short story “A Family Supper” by Kazuo Ishiguro is a first-person narrative. The first-person narrator is also the main character of the story, the protagonist.

At first, the way in which the story begins does not reveal the fact that it is going to be a first-person narrative. In fact, the story begins more like a third-person narrative: “Fugu is a fish caught off the Pacific shores of Japan.” (p. 197, l. 1)

It is only the second sentence which reveals the fact that the narrator is directly i...