Point of View

Something in the Water is told in the first-person, through the perspective of Erin Locke. Erin narrates her thoughts, emotions, and interactions, in both her personal and professional lives. Her point of view is reliable, though she makes increasingly reckless choices through the course of the novel. She herself is aware of her own tendency to make bad decisions, and her poor ability when it comes to noticing things and judging people. As a narrator, however, she recounts the details around her. She notes her surroundings down to the smallest detail and recognizes aspects of peoples’ personalities, but often does not take them into account in her own mind. The novel is primarily a flashback to recount the events leading up to Erin digging a grave. Erin has already changed her mindset when she narrates how she ended up burying Mark in the woods. Thus...