Point of View

The novel is written from the first-person point of view of the unnamed main character because the narrator is relaying her account in her own voice and words. Thus, it is the narrator's perspective that dictates the novel's action, tension, and conflict. The narrator uses the language that she would use in her thoughts to convey her story. Therefore, her narrative voice affects a casual, familiar tone, which endears the reader to her and welcomes the reader into her story. For example, when she describes the decorating in her and Harris’s house, she says, “It was actually more sophisticated than my style; there was an enormous square, black wooden table with eight matching chairs around it. Where would you even buy such a thing? In time I just let people believe it was all mine (‘ours,’ whatever)” (45). The use of the question, the parenthetical...