Point of View

The majority of this novel is told from the point of view of a third-person narrator. Consider the first line of the “Prologue,” “Anthony Bridgerton had always known he would die young” (1). The narrator refers to Anthony with the third-person pronoun “he” (1). Other characters in the novel are also referred to using third-person pronouns. This use of the third-person separates the reader from the characters, not allowing the reader to become emotionally attached to any one of them. This story is more about Anthony and Kate’s realization that they do love each other and that they have more in common than they realize. If there had been an emphasis on one character over the others with the use of a first-person point of view the reader would have been distracted from the story.

The excerpts from Whistledown’s gossip columns that introduce each chapter...