Point of View

The It Girl is told from the point of view of a third-person narrator. This narrator is limited in the sense that he focuses only on what Hannah knows. Consider the opening sentence of the novel: “Afterwards, it was the door she would remember. It was open, she kept saying to the police. I should have known something was wrong” (1). Hannah is the "she" (1) who kept telling police she should have known something was wrong when she noticed that the door to her dorm room was open. The narrator remains focused on Hannah throughout the course of the novel. He knows only what Hannah knows or what she experiences.

This focus on Hannah is appropriate because Hannah is the character who is struggling to come to terms with her own guilt. She fears she has put an innocent man in prison and wants to correct...