Point of View

Six of the thirteen stories in the collection are told from the first-person point of view, a point of view that allows the reader to be connected emotionally with the narrator. For instance, in “Autopsy Room Four,” the reader learns as Howard does, that Howard is believed to be dead and is about to have an autopsy performed on him. Howard describes his increasing panic directly to his reader, making the reader understand Howard’s feelings. In another one of the stories that is narrated by a first-person point of view, the narrator is used to cast suspicion on the central character of the story. The first-person narrator, who remains unnamed, tells the reader the story of L.T.’s theory of pets. Later, the narrator admits to the reader that his wife never liked L.T. and believed the police should have questioned him...