Point of View

This novel is told from the first-person point of view of Annemarie in the present tense. Consider the opening sentence of the novel: “I awake with a start — one moment I’m riding Harry, my zephyr half, my phantom boy, and the next my eyelids flicker and I’m staring at the ceiling” (1). Annemarie refers to herself as “I” (1) indicating that she is narrating her own story. This first-person perspective is important because it allows the reader to become emotionally connected to Annemarie. The reader is able to observe the changes in Annemarie’s thought processes as she moves from believing she is crazy for thinking Eva will be hurt while jumping to realizing that she is concerned for her daughter because she is a mother. The reader also witnesses Annemarie’s disappointment when Dan does not propose to her as expected.

Annemarie’s point...