Point of View

All the Devils are Here is narrated by a third-person narrator. This narrator is not omniscient, he records only what the characters in the novel are doing, saying, or thinking at that time. He appears to have no prior knowledge about the plot of the novel and makes no assumptions about what the characters are thinking or doing. He simply records with no editorializing.

The use of this third-person narrator is ideal because it keeps the reader emotionally distanced from the characters. Had Penny chosen to use any of the characters as a narrator, Armand, for instance, the reader would have become emotionally connected to him. Instead, Penny wants to reader to focus on Armand’s fight against wrongdoing as well as the way some of the characters use a facade to hide their true intentions.

Use of the third person narrator also allows Penny...