comment on point of view

The novel is written in first-person with a narrator who moves between past and present tenses. Lily, the first-person narrator, opens the novel in the present tense, but then in order to offer proper context to occurring events, her narration reverts to the past to tell her story. Lily’s past-tense narrative encompasses much of the novel, and she only reverts back in Section 4, when certain conflicts between Lily and Eva are relieved in the present.