Point of View

Each book within Trust is written from a different point of view. The first book, “Bonds”, written by the fictional character Howard Vanner is told from a third person point of view. “My Life”, Andrew Bevel’s incomplete autobiography, is written from a first person point of view. Ida Partenza is the first person narrator in “A Memoir Remembered”. The final book, “Futures” is written from the first person point of view of Mildred Bevel. Diaz chooses to shift the point of view in each book in order to bolster his thematic claim that reality is subjective and can be distorted by personal bias. By portraying Andrew Bevel’s life from the perspective of an acquaintance, himself, an employee, and his wife, the author illuminates the character’s desire to manipulate his own identity and conceal certain facets of his life. If Trust were written...