Point of View

The novel is told from the first person point of view of the unnamed narrator and protagonist. This narrator is the victim of domestic abuse during her short-lived but extremely violent marriage. This first person point of view is important because the novel attempts to explain physical, verbal, and sexual abuse and assault through the eyes of the victim. The narrator, while trapped in the marriage, had no way of telling her story. The only people she could talk to were her parents and her husband. According to the world, what happened in their home was only what the husband told people, and he formed people’s views of the narrator by telling them sometimes disparaging things about her. The first person point of view, therefore, is crucial because it gives the abused a voice, her own voice.

The only view that the reader gets...