comment on point of view

"The Leap" is written from the first-person point of view of the unnamed narrator. Traditionally, this perspective would also indicate that the narrator is the central character of the story, but as early as the opening sentence, the focus is shifted elsewhere: "My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts" (1).