Point of View

"Twilight of the Superheroes" is written from the third person point of view. Over the course of the narrative, this third person narrator moves back and forth between Nathaniel and Lucien's perspectives, absorbing and depicting each of their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. In some sections, the narrator lives strictly behind Nathaniel's youthful lens. In others, the narrator moves inside Lucien's space and inhabits his consciousness. Because the short story is written in a fragmented form, the third person acts as a hinge between each seemingly disparate narrative parcel, and the main characters' contrasting social spheres and cultural outlooks. In the section "Information," Lucien sits alone in the gallery reflecting on his wasted life. Lucien keeps asking himself: "How did he get so old? The usual stupid question. One had snickered all one's life as the plaintive old geezers doddered about baffled, asking themselves the same...