Point of View

Cassandra in Reverse is written from a first-person point of view, exclusively through the lens of Cassandra Penelope Dankworth. The author chooses to employ this point of view in order to grant the reader access to the protagonist’s internal thoughts and emotions which she struggles to articulate to those around her. By way of example, when Will and Cassandra are at the restaurant and he has no recollection of breaking up with her, Cassandra does not verbally explain what she is experiencing. However, internally, she thinks I “just dumped myself, went into unnecessary mourning, got fired, stole a plant, had the plant taken back off me again, cried over a muffin, got covered in blood and imploded in the doorway of a Dickens pun” (40). The author utilizes the dichotomy between Cassandra’s internal thoughts and external expressions to illuminate the character’s fear of...