Narrator

The unnamed narrator of "The Leap" is the lens through which readers experience the events of the story. While the author does not specify how old she is, the story implies that she is an adult woman who has moved back home to take care of her aging mother. The narrator is dedicated to exploring her mother's past and portraying her mother as a mythic figure with the ability to defy reality. As the the story progresses, the story suggests that the narrator is scared to lose her mother and prefers to tell stories of her mother's youth in order to keep the memory of her alive. By the end of the story, the narrator and her mother become nearly the same entity, a notion that is solidified when the two jump from the fire-raged house while clinging to one another. The narrator, while arguably not the main...