Investigating Point of View in Albert Camus's "The Stranger" in Terms of Paul Simpson's Model

A storyteller is an essential component of any narrative: a voice that delivers the story to the reader. This narrative voice, or viewpoint, dictates the perspective from which the story is told. A key component of fiction writing is always the interaction that exists between the teller and the story. It influences and shapes the presentation and perception of all elements, including the plot, characters, and setting. The study aims to respond to the following questions which are: How does the modality model reflect the writers' and characters' views, what is the most prominent type of modality, and how can Simpson’s linguistic model support the reader’s comprehension of the literary text? This study is primarily concerned with applying Paul Simpson's (1993) framework of viewpoint to Albert Camus's "The Stranger".' It falls into two parts: The first part is concerned with the theoretical, and the second part applies the model to the selected novel. The results of the study reveal the prominence of epistemic and perception modalities. The use of certain expressions related to perception and epistemic modalities aims to demonstrate the connectedness between the narrator's mind and the surrounding physical world.