Point of View

The novel is told in chapters that alternate between being narrated by Evan Hansen and Connor Murphy. Connor opens the novel by telling the reader that he has killed himself. After this prologue, Evan begins narrating on the first day of senior year. He is consumed with his own anxiety and depression, and worried about how the day will go for him. When he as a run-in with Connor Murphy, he is terrified about what will happen to him. And, when he learns that Connor has killed himself, Evan worries that he is somehow responsible for the boy’s death. He does not realize, until much later, that Connor had a whole interior drama going on during the first day of senior year that had absolutely nothing to do with Evan.

Connor continues to narrate nine short chapters through the perspective of his ghost. Removed...