Point of View

Each of the short stories collected in Five Tuesdays in Winter is written from a distinct narrative point of view. "Creature" is written from Carol's first person point of view the "summer [she] was fourteen," and marries her childhood and retrospective adult narrative voices (1). "Five Tuesdays in Winter" is written from a third person point of view. The third person narrator's vantage point is limited to the main character Mitchell's perspective. "When in the Dordogne" is written from the first person point of view of an unnamed narrator during the "summer before [he] entered high school" (68). As in "Creature," the narrator of "When in the Dordogne," both writes from his childhood vantage, and reflects upon this era from his adult perspective as he looks “back on that time now as if rereading a book” (94). "North Sea" is written from a third person narrative voice, and...