Point of View

In terms of narrative point of view, the first point to note is that unlike in most prose works, there is no single narrative voice or perspective. There are, however, a number of narrators, many of whom emerge from what might be defined as a Chorus of Young Men. This chorus functions in a similar fashion to a Chorus in Classical Greek theatre, in that its members both describe the action and comment on it. Unlike such a chorus, however, they do not speak in unison, offering their narration and their commentary through sequence of individually spoken lines. Also unlike such a chorus, the individual members of this Chorus frequently take on the identities and actions of individual characters. In turn, these characters frequently narrate their own stories, speaking about themselves in third-person. Frequently, these offerings of narration are similar in style and tone to...