Point of View

The novel is written in third-person from the limited perspective of Jane. The limited perspective means the reader knows only what Jane knows. Things that happen outside Jane's view are also outside the reader's knowledge. For example, Duncan and Aggie go on a trip together and Jane spends most of the two days imagining that they are having a wonderful time, and she even imagines they might have a sexual encounter. When they get home, she discovers what really happened, mostly from Aggie's account of the disastrous party they attended and being lost on the way home because Duncan misread the map. Because she knows Duncan so well, Jane realizes that he misdirected them on purpose as a means of aggravating Aggie even more. The reader never sees any of the scenes from that trip except through Aggie's description and Jane's imagination.

The limited perspective...