Break It Down

What is the narrator point of view in the short-story, Break It Down?

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Break It Down is written from the first, second, and third person points of view. The first lines of the short story appear in the third person. In the second paragraph, the man described in the opening lines, becomes the first person narrator. Once the man begins describing the details of his recent affair, he shifts into the second person. Throughout the remainder of the story, the narration slips between first and second person, thus enacting the protagonist's struggle to rationalize the emotional value and cost of the 10 days he spent with his lover.

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