Point of View

“Some Luck” by Jane Smiley is written from the third-person and limited, omniscient perspective. Using this device, the author writes from the point of view of the main characters and provides insight into the main characters and what drives them. The reader is able to know the thoughts, motivations, intentions, and private feelings of the main characters. The reader is privy to Walter’s fears and doubts about being able to make the farm successful and to care for his wife and children.

Readers are also shown Rosanna’s conflicts with religion and her guilt and shame about favoring one child over the other rise to the forefront. She struggles between what she was taught as a Catholic, the religion she was born and raised in, and the Protestant religion that preach that salvation is only possible when a person is saved. She is pressured...