Point of View

In “Two Wrongs” Fitzgerald makes use of third person point of view, but manages over the course of the story to smoothly migrate the focal character without making this obvious to the reader. While the bulk of the story will be spent with one of the two main characters as the focal character, the story begins with Brancusi as the focal character. By describing what Brancusi “would have seen” (434), had he been paying close attention to Bill, Fitzgerald is able to use the point of view to describe Bill from an external perspective. This contrasts with moments in which the narrator’s point of view is aligned with Bill’s, such as when Bill’s move to London is described by the narrator as “a man of action…changing his base” (443). While this may be the way that Bill perceives his move, it is certainly...