Point of View

The stories in Florida are roughly evenly split between first person perspective and third person perspective. The stories told from third person perspective usually feature a narrator with a limited point-of-view, meaning they only have access to the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the main character. The only exception to this is “For the God of Love, For the Love of God,” in which the third person narrator switches from the perspectives of each of the main characters, including Amanda, Grant, Manfred, and Leo. The latter's perspective is a compelling representation of a disturbed child's train of thought, as he notes, for example, that he prefers Amanda to his own family, and that “He'd set all the rest of them on fire if he could” (108).

Regardless of whether the story is told from first or third person perspective, the author perceptively and vividly renders their...