Narrator and point of view

The short story “Tales of Simple: Coffee Break” by Langston Hughes is a first-person narrative which includes two narrators.

The main narrator is an outsider to the main story, someone who has heard Simple’s narrative. We can associate this narrator with a persona of the author himself, Langston Hughes. His presence is only felt in the beginning of the story: “He always says ‘THE Negro,’ as if there was not 50-11 different kinds of Negroes in the U.S.A.,’ complained Simple.” (p. 130,  ll . 5-6)

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