Point of View

The Master Butchers Singing Club is written from an omniscient third person point of view. This means that the third person narrator acts as an all-seeing, all-knowing narrative entity. The narrator has access to events and dynamics to which not all of the characters are inherently privy. At the same time, this third person omniscient narrator is able to access the private thoughts and feelings of her main characters.

The reader might refer to the narrative shifts throughout Chapter 3, “The Bones,” in order to better understand the narrator’s expansive capacities. For example, in one passage from this chapter, the narrator attends to Fidelis’s interiority, describing the ways in which his unarticulated grief consumes him emotionally and psychologically following the death of the sow: “But in spite of his attempt to control himself, he wept, angry at his helpless grief, and was all the...