Point of View

The novel is written from both the third and first person points of view. In “The Stuntman,” “The Midwife,” and “The Spy,” the narrative alternates between third person sequences and first person sequences. In “The Stuntman,” the third person narrator traces the story of the artist G and his attempts “to make sense of his time and place in history” by changing his approach to painting (3). The first person portions of the section depict an unnamed first person narrator’s ventures through an unnamed city. In “The Midwife,” the third person narrator details sequences from a female artist G’s life as she tries to make sense of why “her circumstances [have] become more conventional” over the course of her life (44). The first person sequences trace an unnamed first person narrator’s experiences staying at a farm in the countryside. In “The Spy,” the third...