Point of View

Given the nature of autobiographical writing, the point of view here is an intimate and accessible first-person. The effect is of Frank directly addressing the reader. The point of view is thus as much a diary as a therapy session, at once deeply private and yet intended to be shared and thus seen as therapeutic. The point of view encourages a sense of trusting Frank, his voice creates a bond of reliability. The point of view is invitatory, that is Frank Goldberg, the character, confesses that his intention is to share “every single second of my entire life so far in full 3-D technicolor and surrounded sound, and at every past scene reinhabit myself exactly as I was” (235).

A journalist by trade, he does not obfuscate or deflect. In turn, the intimacy of the point of view, despite the painful and difficult subject matter, encourages...