Point of View

The Copenhagen Trilogy is written from Tove's first person point of view. Tove's narrative voice is vulnerable and forthcoming. Though she is depicting difficult scenes and experiences from throughout her life, she does not hide her depression, her loneliness, nor her longings from the reader. Because the three books enclosed in the trilogy, "Childhood," "Youth," and "Dependency" are all categorized as memoir, the reader understands that the enclosed events and experiences belong to the author herself. By writing from her own perspective, using her own words, she renders her story with raw vulnerability. In "Dependency," Part Two, Chapter 1, when Tove is ending her marriage with Ebbe, she confesses: "That's one of my problems, that I don't dare to show how I feel" (314). Though she has struggled to emote throughout her life, Tove grants the reader access to her secret interior. The first person vantage point...