Point of View

Tell Me Everything is written from the third person omniscient point of view. This means that the third person narrator has access to all of the characters’ interior worlds. Throughout the novel, the narrator will inhabit the various characters’ consciousnesses and present their private thoughts and vulnerable feelings on the page. One example of this dynamic appears in Book 1, Chapter 10. After Bob runs into William in the grocery store, the narrator inhabits Bob’s psyche and remarks: “That’s just how it is, that’s all. He thought: God, we are all so alone” (98). This is how Bob sees the world and therefore how the narrator is rendering this moment. Bob has just had a meaningful exchange with William, but still feels isolated. The narrator offers this window into Bob’s interiority in order to develop his character and immerse the reader in his private...