Point of View

The novel is written from the first person point of view of the unnamed narrator and main character. By writing All-Night Pharmacy from the protagonist’s first person point of view, the author centralizes her experience of the world. This means that the ways in which the narrator perceives herself, her relationships, her circumstances, and her past dictate the entirety of the narrative action, conflict, and tension.

Chief amongst these conflicts is the narrator’s relationship with her sister. Therefore, when the narrator opens her account by describing the experience of “Spending time with [her] sister, Debbie,” she is establishing the focal point of her story for the pages to come (3). Indeed, the majority of the way that the narrator sees herself, her family, and her future is influenced by her attachment to and reliance upon her older sister. Although being “Debbie’s sister [is...