Point of View

The novel is written in second person from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who is speaking directly to the photographer. The reader may assume that the narrator is the author or the photographer's subconscious. The narrator seems to know everything the photographer is feeling and sometimes what the dancer is feeling. It may be that the narrator is simply evaluating the dancer's feelings based on her actions and words. The narrator seems honest and reliable, but does not always reveal everything up front. For example, the photographer encounters a young man one day who is going to be late for an interview because of a problem with his car. He also describes a brief connection with a man once as they toasted each other from a distance. Near the end of the novel, the reader learns that both of these scenes involved Daniel, the...