Point of View

The Maker of Swans oscillates between the third person limited point of view of Eustace and Clara. The author utilizes this lens in order to mirror the symbiotic relationship between the artist and the muse in the narrative form. When the author grants the reader access to Eustace’s internal thoughts and emotions, he illuminates the artist’s need to abandon their own ego in order to foster the muse. Eustace forgoes his own desire to escape the consequences of the poet’s murder in order to protect Mr. Crowe and Clara. Similarly, Clara’s can explore her own creative endeavors and move about the manor at her leisure because Eustace does not impose his own ideologies upon her habits. In the same manner that the proverbial artist and muse collaborate to create a work of art, the points of view of Eustace and Clara...