Point of View

This story is told from the first-person point of view of Mickey, the main character of the novel. Mickey’s first-person point of view narration leads to a very biased version of the situations that Mickey describes. Mickey brings all of her failings and her prejudices as well as her strengths into play as she narrates the story of her life and the search for the man who is killing women in Kensington. Mickey tells her reader right away that she is willing to admit her faults. In fact, she lists these to confirm her failings to the reader. She says that she is: “Poor: yes. Weak: yes. Stupid: no. I’m not stupid” (8). Mickey carries through the novel this knowledge that she is not stupid and recognizes that her sergeant is trying to make her stop investigating the deaths in her precinct.

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