Bernhard uses the first person point of view to reflect the narrator's thoughts and feelings, using a continual first person interior monologue to depict his relationships with Wertheimer and Glenn Gould. This point of view is important since the novel is focused around the relationships between this trio of friends and two of the three men are now dead; this leaves the narrator to explain their interactions with one another and the impact they have had on each other's lives.
The Loser