Why do we feel closer to first person narrators than omniscient narrators?
When you read a book with a first person narrator, you often feel closer to hem because they actually narrarate the story. The narrator tells its feelings about things and its experiences. Because you don’t see any other perspectives on the story you feel for that character when something bad happens to him/her. When you see all these experiences from the one characters point of view for the whole book or story, you become especially attached to a character. With omniscient narrators, you get all the characters’ points of view. When you are continually getting different points of view it is harder (not impossible) to become attached to that charracter. You don’t feel as bad for x character and/or may have mixed feelings because you know y character’s perspective or some opinion a y character had of x character. That’s why.
